Patent ID: 8179557

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit; a data reading unit that reads, from a first non-contact tag attached to a first recording medium, original data of an image formed on the first recording medium by another image forming apparatus and a first print setting in accordance with which the other image forming apparatus formed the image on the first recording medium, a processing unit; memory storing machine readable instructions, which when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to function as: a determination unit that determines whether the image forming unit is capable of forming an image in accordance with the first print setting; and a controller that controls the image forming unit to form an image, wherein the controller controls the image forming unit to form, on a second recording medium, an image based on the original data in accordance with the first print setting read from the first non-contact tag when the determination unit determines that the image forming unit is capable of forming the image in accordance with the first print setting, and an image based on the original data in accordance with a second print setting which is modified from the first print setting when the determination unit determines that the image forming unit is not capable of forming the image in accordance with the first print setting, the image forming unit being capable of forming an image in accordance with the second print setting, wherein the second print setting is set as similar as possible to the first print setting as long as the image forming unit is capable of forming the image, wherein the data reading unit reads performance data indicating a performance of the other image forming apparatus, which formed the image on the first recording medium, from the first non-contact tag, wherein the determination unit determines whether the performance of the other image forming apparatus, which formed the image on the first recording medium, read by the data reading unit conforms to a performance of the image forming apparatus, and wherein the controller is operable to change the first print setting according to a user instruction when the determination unit determines that the image forming unit is capable of forming the image in accordance with the first print setting and the performance of the other image forming apparatus read from the first non-contact tag does not conform to the performance of the image forming apparatus.