Patent ID: 7983583
Filing Date: 2011-07-19
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit capable of forming an image on a sheet of recording medium; a sheet feed tray selecting unit that selects a tray from among a plurality of sheet feed trays to feed a sheet of recording medium to the image forming unit; a medium size selecting unit that selects a first medium size of the sheet of recording medium from among a plurality of medium sizes; and a medium type selecting unit that selects a medium type of the sheet of recording medium from among a plurality of medium types, wherein the sheet feed tray selecting unit, the medium size selecting unit, and the medium type selecting unit include a function for specifying resetting values for an operation of the image forming unit; a determining unit that determines the operation of the image forming unit based on a search result of a first sheet feed tray corresponding to the first medium size selected by the medium size selecting unit, a search result of a second sheet feed tray corresponding to the medium type selected by the medium type selecting unit, the selected tray selected by the sheet feed tray selecting unit, and the resetting value.