Patent ID: 8670703
Filing Date: 2014-03-11
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus configured to be connected to an information processing apparatus that outputs print data, the image forming apparatus comprising: a feed tray having a space for storing a print sheet that has predetermined current sheet information; a feed unit configured to pick-up the print sheet contained in the feed tray at a predetermined feed timing; a conveying unit configured to convey the print sheet picked-up by the feed unit from the feed tray; a printing unit configured to perform printing onto the print sheet conveyed by the conveying unit by using the print data output from the information processing apparatus; a discharge tray configured to be a discharge destination of the print sheet after printing has been performed by the printing unit; an input unit configured to receive, as part of a print request of the print data that is received from a user at the information processing apparatus, input of a first sheet length, along a conveying direction of the conveying unit, of a print sheet designated as a print destination of the print data from an active printer driver of the information processing apparatus; a sheet-information storage unit configured to store, in advance and independent of the input unit receiving the print request of the print data, an input of a second sheet length, along the conveying direction of the conveying unit, of a print sheet designated as a print destination, the second sheet length being received as an input by a user at an operation panel of the image forming apparatus; and a feed-timing determining unit configured to compare the first sheet length with the second sheet length and determine the feed timing in accordance with a comparison result, wherein the feed-timing determining unit determines the feed timing in accordance with the first sheet length when the first sheet length is greater than and not equal to the second sheet length, and determines the feed timing in accordance with the second sheet length when the first sheet length is shorter than or equal to the second sheet length.