Patent ID: 8630003

Claim:
An image formation apparatus comprising: an accepting unit that accepts an image formation instruction and information of identifiers, the information of identifiers comprising a first identifier of a first user and a second identifier of a second user and the image formation instruction comprising an image formation setting; an acquiring unit that acquires a first image formation setting that is associated with the first identifier and a second image formation setting and a third image formation setting that are associated with the second identifier, determines a selection of one of the second image formation setting and the third image formation setting based on an image formation setting indicator relating to contents of the image formation instruction associated with the one of the second image formation setting and the third image formation setting, and selects the one of the second image formation setting and the third image formation setting based on a result of the selection determination; an instruction generation section that generates a first image formation instruction having the image formation setting of the image formation instruction replaced by the first image formation setting and generates a second image formation instruction having the image formation setting replaced by the selected one of the second image formation setting and the third image formation setting; and a formation unit that forms a first image based on the first image formation instruction and a second image based on the second image formation instruction.