Patent ID: 8223394

Claim:
An image-forming apparatus which conveys a continuous sheet without forming an image on the continuous sheet from commencement of a conveyance process until the conveyance process is stabilized, the image-forming apparatus comprising: an image processing section that generates raster data for a plurality of pages, the raster data being generated by a rasterizing process; an image-forming section that forms on the continuous sheet a toner image according to the raster data generated by the image processing section; a conveyor section that conveys the continuous sheet at least while the toner image is being formed by the image-forming section; a control section that controls operations of the conveyor section and the image-forming section; and a determining unit that determines, in a case that a first toner image corresponding to first image data and a second toner image corresponding to second image data are formed on the continuous sheet, whether the second image data are provided to the image-forming section until a predetermined time period elapses from when the first toner image is formed on the continuous sheet, the second image data being subsequent to the first image data, wherein if the determining section determines that the second image data are provided before the predetermined time period elapses from when the first toner image is formed, the control section is configured to control the image-forming section to form the second toner image and to control the conveyor section to continue conveying the continuous sheet, and if the determining section determines that the second image data are not provided before the predetermined time period elapses from when the first toner image is formed, the control section is configured to control the image-forming section not to form a toner image and to control the conveyor section to continue conveying the continuous sheet until the predetermined time period elapses, and control the conveyor section to stop conveying the continuous sheet when the predetermined time period has elapsed.