Patent ID: 8514449

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit that forms an image on a medium by using an image forming portion; a mode setting unit that sets an image forming mode of a plurality of image forming modes, the plurality of image forming modes setting, at a time of forming the image, different image forming conditions for the image forming portion included in the image forming unit; an adjusting unit that performs adjustment of an image forming condition in the image forming mode set by the mode setting unit; and a measuring unit that individually measures, for each of the image forming modes, a progress state after the adjustment of the image forming condition is performed by the adjusting unit in the image forming mode set by the mode setting unit, the adjusting unit performing the adjustment of the image forming condition when the progress state in the image forming mode set by the mode setting unit exceeds a certain value in the image forming mode, the progress state being measured by the measuring unit; wherein the progress state comprises a counter for a type of paper used; wherein the adjusting unit is configured to automatically set a standard mode based on a majority type of paper used from among a plurality of printed sheets of paper, and to automatically change the standard mode based on a change of the majority type of paper used.