Patent ID: 7567356
Filing Date: 2009-07-28
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An image forming device connected to an external device, the image forming device comprising: an image forming unit forming images on a recording medium; a reception unit receiving a reset signal transmitted from an external device; a reset process unit executing a reset process to reset the image forming unit; a reset process control unit selectively controlling the reset process unit to execute the reset process in a manner that the reset process control unit controls, during a reset signal valid mode, the reset process unit to execute the reset process upon receipt of the reset signal and that the reset process control unit ignores, during a reset signal invalid mode, input of the reset signal, and fails to control the reset process unit to execute the reset process; a sleep mode control unit bringing the image forming unit into a sleep mode when no print job is inputted within a prescribed time after the image forming unit has completed a printing process, the image forming unit being capable of receiving a print job during the sleep mode and consuming power less than while the image forming unit is executing a printing process; a sleep-mode judging unit judging, when the reception unit, receives the reset signal, whether or not the image forming unit is in the sleep mode; and an auto-select mode setting unit setting the reset process control unit into either one of the reset signal valid mode and the reset signal invalid mode automatically dependent upon the determined results of the sleep-mode judging unit.