Patent ID: 8643859

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a housing which comprises a door; an image forming unit which is mounted in the housing and forms an image on a print medium; a medium discharger which discharges the print medium, on which the image is formed, to an outside of the housing; a finisher which is mounted in a location of the housing and performs a finishing operation comprising at least one of sorting, grouping, stapling, binding and punching operations with respect to the print medium on which the image is formed; a discharging direction changer which changes a discharging direction of the print medium to guide the print medium discharged from the image forming unit to one of the medium discharger and the finisher; and a controller which controls the image forming unit, the finisher and the discharging direction changer, and selectively performs an auto-recovery operation to automatically recover a jam of the print medium depending upon an occurrence location of the jam of the print medium if the jam occurs from a predetermined location of a print medium feeding path, based on whether the print medium is located in the discharging direction changer, wherein the controller controls the auto-recovery operation not to be performed if the jam of the print medium occurs when the print medium is located in the discharging direction changer, or wherein the controller controls the auto-recovery operation to be performed under a predetermined condition if the jam of the print medium occurs when the print medium is not located in the discharging direction changer.