Patent ID: 7120382

Claim:
An image forming apparatus including an image input unit adapted to input image data, and an image output unit adapted to record an image based on the image data to a recording medium, the image forming apparatus further comprising: a selector adapted to select a recording medium required for a job to be processed from candidates of a plurality of recording media including a recording medium of a first size and a first type and a recording medium of the first size and a second type which is not the same as the first type; and a controller adapted to cause said output unit to record an image which is rotated in a predetermined angle to a recording medium of the first size and the first type, in a case where said job to be processed requires the recording medium of the first size and the first type, and cause said output unit to record an image which is not rotated in the predetermined angle to a recording medium of the first size and the second type, in a case where said job to be processed requires the recording medium of the first size and the second type, wherein the recording medium of the first type is a punched recording medium which has been already subjected to a punching process, and wherein if said selector selects the punched recording medium, said controller causes said output unit to record the image based on the image data after rotating the image data by the predetermined angle on the punched recording medium.