Patent ID: 8761619
Filing Date: 2014-06-24
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming device comprising: an image forming unit that forms a developer image on a recording medium; a first recording medium accommodation part and a second recording medium accommodation part that each accommodate the recording medium; a failure detection part that detects occurrence of an unrecoverable failure; and a main controller that operates the image forming unit to form the developer image on the recording medium supplied only from the first recording medium accommodation part and that suspends supply of the recording medium from the second recording medium accommodation part, when the failure detection part detects the occurrence of an unrecoverable failure, wherein the first recording medium accommodation part and the second recording medium accommodation part are positioned such that a recording medium carrying distance from the first recording medium accommodation part to the image forming unit is shorter than a recording medium carrying distance from the second recording medium accommodation part to the image forming unit.