Patent ID: 6978114
Filing Date: 2005-12-20
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming device comprising: a printing unit that forms an image on a recording medium; a plurality of trays, each supporting a recording medium; a selection unit that selects one of the plurality of trays; a supply unit that supplies a recording medium from the selected one of the plurality of trays to the printing unit; a detecting unit that detects whether the selected one of the plurality of trays is empty; a controller that instructs the selection unit to reselect a different one of the plurality of trays when the detecting unit detects that the selected one of the plurality of trays is empty; a determining unit that determines whether one or more of size and type of recording medium for the selected one of the plurality of trays differs from one or more of size and type of recording medium stored in the selected different one of the plurality of trays; a notifying unit that notifies a user of information relating to the selected different one of the plurality of trays when the determining unit determines that one or more of size and type of recording medium for the selected one of the plurality of trays differs from one or more of size and type of recording medium stored in the selected different one of the plurality of trays; an input unit through which an approval is input, the approval approving using the selected different one of the plurality of trays; and a scanning unit that reads document image from a document and a receiving unit that receives image data, wherein when the approval is input, the supply unit supplies the recording medium from the selected different one of the plurality of trays to the printing unit, when printing based on the document image is instructed, the supply unit supplies the recording medium from the selected different one of the plurality of trays to the printing unit only if the approval is input through the input unit, and when printing based on image data received by the receiving unit is instructed, the supply unit supplies the recording medium from the selected different one of the trays to the printing unit irrespective of whether the approval is input.