Patent ID: 7443406
Filing Date: 2008-10-28
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus that includes a plurality of image-forming process cartridges arranged in tandem, comprising: a color-information acquiring unit configured to acquire color information representing a color of an image to be formed by each of the image-forming process cartridges; an image-information distributing unit configured to distribute print information for the color to an image-forming process cartridge that forms an image of the color; a designating unit configured to designate a print mode that includes a monochromatic mode and a full-color mode; a control unit configured to control image forming operation by the image-forming process cartridges to perform a print operation in designated print mode; and an alarming unit configured to generate an alarm in response to the full-color mode being designated by the designating unit when the color is identical in two or more image-forming process cartridges.