Patent ID: 8472830
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: G03G,G06F

Abstract:
1. An image forming device comprising: a first image forming unit that forms an image on one of either a front face or a back face of a recording medium in a single pass; a second image forming unit that receives the recording medium from the first image forming unit and forms an image at the other of the front face or the back face of the received recording medium in the single pass, and that performs image formation of a type that differs from image formation performed by the first image forming unit; an assignment unit that assigns each of logical pages of image data of a printing target to one of the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit; and a reporting unit that reports, on a display screen of a user interface, image forming information indicating what type of image formation is to be performed on the each logical page of the image data that is assigned by the assignment unit to one of the first image forming unit and the second image forming unit.