Patent ID: 7990590
Filing Date: 2011-08-02
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a sheet-information acquiring unit configured to acquire information for discriminating a type of a sheet to be an object of image formation processing, by sensing the sheet; an operation inputting unit configured to acquire information for discriminating the type of the sheet by receiving an operation input of a user; and a control-information acquiring unit configured to acquire, on the basis of the information acquired by the sheet information acquiring unit or the information acquired by the operation inputting unit, information for control used in image quality control processing, if the information for discriminating the type of the sheet is acquired by both of the operation inputting unit and the sheet-information acquiring unit, the control-information acquiring unit acquires, on the basis of the input information acquired by the operation inputting unit prior to the information acquired by the sheet-information acquiring unit, the information for control used in the image quality control processing.