Patent ID: 7375846

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: an image forming unit that forms images on a recording medium; a supply unit that supplies the recording medium to the image forming unit; a receiving unit that receives image data via a network from an external source; a memory that stores the image data; a storing unit that stores the image data into the memory each time the receiving unit receives the image data by appending the image data to any image data already stored in the memory; a control unit that controls the image forming unit and the supply unit; a determining unit that determines whether or not a data amount of the image data stored in the memory is equal to or greater than a predetermined amount; and an input unit that inputs the image data stored in the memory into the control unit when the determining unit determines that the data amount is equal to or greater than the predetermined amount, the input unit not inputting the image data stored in the memory into the control unit when the determining unit determines that the data amount is lower than the predetermined amount, wherein upon reception of the image data, the control unit controls the supply unit to supply the recording medium to the image forming unit and controls the image forming unit to form the images based on the image data on the recording medium supplied by the supply unit.