Patent ID: 8094341

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a printing unit that performs printing on a recording sheet based on print information, the recording sheet including a plurality of print areas, a positional information reader that reads positional information with regard to a first storing medium and information on print positions indicating ranges of the print areas from a second storing medium that stores the positional information with regard to the first storing medium and the information on the print positions indicating the ranges of the print areas, the first and the second medium provided to the recording sheet; a first controller that controls the printing unit based on the information on print positions, read by the positional information reader, so as to print an image, corresponding to the print information, in a position on a recording sheet according to the information on print positions; and the first controller includes a counter that counts a value each time an image corresponding to the print information and the information on print positions are associated with each other, wherein when the first controller determines that the image corresponding to the print information is a last image, or when the first controller determines that the value in the counter is larger than a number of the first storing medium recognized by the information on the print position, the printing unit starts printing.