Patent ID: 7853166

Claim:
An image-forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium; a scanning unit, including a platen on which an original is placed and an image sensor, configured to open/close relative to the image forming unit and to scan an image of the original placed on the platen with the image sensor, wherein the image forming unit forms the image on the recording medium based on the image scanned by the scanning unit and an operation command from outside of the image-forming apparatus; and an instructing unit configured to perform an instruction for causing the image-forming apparatus to execute a scanning operation by the scanning unit, wherein the image-forming apparatus is disabled from executing the scanning operation regardless of whether the instruction is performed by the instructing unit when the scanning unit is in an opened state, and wherein the image forming unit forms an image on the recording medium based on the operation command from the outside of the image-forming apparatus regardless of whether the scanning unit is in an opened state.