Patent ID: 8531719

Claim:
An image forming apparatus into which a memory device is insertable and which performs a printing process on an image of image data stored in the memory device, said image forming apparatus comprising: a detection section for detecting insertion of the memory device into the image forming apparatus; a notification section for performing a notification process of warning of accidental ingestion of the memory device, when the detection section detects the insertion of the memory device; and a recommendation information writing section for writing, into the inserted memory device, recommendation information indicative of whether or not the memory device is a recommendable memory device, on which a treatment for preventing the accidental ingestion is performed, the recommendation information writing section writing the recommendation information in accordance with a user input, and in a case where the recommendation information is recorded in the inserted memory device and the recommendation information indicates that the inserted memory device is a recommendable memory device, the notification section omitting the notification process.