Patent ID: 9684259
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: G03G

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image formation processor to perform image formation to a recording medium with a primary color toner and a secondary color toner that is different from the primary color toner; a database to store multiple setting values, each of which corresponding to a combination of a mode type depending on the primary color toner and the secondary color toner and a media type of the recording medium and being applied to a process of the image formation performed by the image formation processor; an operation setting arranger to perform the image formation based on the optimum setting value acquired from the database retriever; and a warning generator to issue a warning message, wherein the database stores a non-recommendable combination of the media type and the mode type with the secondary color toner, wherein the warning generator issues the warning message on selection of the non-recommendable combination, and wherein when the warning generator issues the warning message and when either one of a non-assumable combination of the media type and the mode type with the primary color toner and the secondary color toner and a non-recommendable combination of the media type and the mode type with the primary color toner and the secondary color toner is selected, the operation setting arranger conveys the recording medium without stopping the image formation performed by the image formation processor.