Patent ID: 7062184

Claim:
An image formation device comprising: an input section for inputting parameters of a sheet-form recording medium irrespective of a predetermined sheet-form recording medium material; a writing section that writes the parameters inputted by the input section to a user writable region provided in a non-volatile memory; an image-bearing body at which an electrostatic latent image is formed by a light exposure section; a development section which forms a toner image in correspondence with the electrostatic latent image at the image-bearing body; a transfer section which transfers the toner image that has been formed at the image-bearing body to the sheet-form recording medium via an intermediate transfer body, and a fixing section which thermally fixes the toner image that has been transferred by the transfer section to the sheet-form recording medium; non-volatile memory at which parameters of the transfer section and the fixing section, which change with respective sheet-form recording medium, are preparatory specified and stored in association with the respective sheet-form recording media; a selection section which selects, from a plurality of sheet-form recording medium for which the parameters are stored at the non-volatile memory, the sheet-form recording medium that is to be used in transfer of the toner image, wherein the selection section is capable of selecting at least one of the parameters that have been written to the user writable region of the non-volatile memory and a sheet-form recording medium specified by these parameters; and a control section which reads from the non-volatile memory the parameters of the sheet-form recording medium that has been selected by the selection section, and controls the transfer section and the fixing section in accordance with the parameters that have been read.