Patent ID: 7733547

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a sheet-information acquiring unit configured to acquire information for discriminating a type of a sheet to be an object of image formation processing; an operation inputting unit configured to receive an operation input of a user; a control-information acquiring unit configured to acquire information for control used in the image quality control processing on the basis of the information acquired by the sheet-information acquiring unit or on the basis of input information received by the operation inputting unit; and a setting-information acquiring unit configured to acquire setting information concerning which of information of the sheet-information acquiring unit and information of the operation inputting unit is given priority, wherein the control-information acquiring unit acquires, when the information for discriminating the type of the sheet is received by the operation inputting unit, the information for control used in the image quality control processing on the basis of the information acquired by one of the sheet-information acquiring unit and the operation inputting unit that is set to be given priority according to the setting information acquired by the setting-information acquiring unit.