Patent ID: 8179537

Claim:
An image forming apparatus enabling communication through a network and having a monochrome-printing mode and a color-printing mode, the image forming apparatus comprising: an obtaining unit adapted to obtain Web page data described in a markup language from a Web site via the network, and to obtain a plurality of images referred to by the Web page data from the Web site or other Web sites via the network; a display unit adapted to display a Web page based on the Web page data and the plurality of images obtained by said obtaining unit; a first determining unit adapted to determine whether the plurality of images obtained by said obtaining unit include a color image obtained from the Web site; and a setting unit adapted to automatically set a printing mode for printing the displayed Web page to the color-printing mode if said first determining unit determines that the plurality of images obtained by said obtaining unit include a color image obtained from the Web site, and automatically set the printing mode for printing the displayed Web page to the monochrome-printing mode if said first determining unit determines that the plurality of images obtained by said obtaining unit do not include any color image obtained from the Web site, even if those images include a color image obtained from another Web site.