Patent ID: 8107844

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a control panel including a display unit and capable of displaying a menu screen for setting an image forming condition in the display unit, and displaying a “frequency” icon and a “recent” icon on the menu screen; an image forming unit configured to carry out image forming processing under the condition set by the control panel; a reader and writer capable of communicating with a portable storage medium; a first control unit configured to control the reader and writer to write setting information at the time the image forming condition is set, into the storage medium, and to delete setting information that is old and used less frequency from the storage medium, and to read the setting information stored in the storage medium; and a second control unit configured to control a content of the menu screen in accordance with the setting information read from the storage medium when the control panel is operated to set an image forming condition, and to display plural icons of setting items on the menu screen in order from the highest frequency of use if the “frequency” icon is selected, and to display plural icons of setting items on the menu screen in recently set order if the “recent” icon is selected.