Patent ID: 8503018

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: an image forming unit forming an image on a medium based on image data; a first storage connected to said image forming unit, storing image forming conditions when said image forming unit forms an image; an input device receiving a user input setting said image forming conditions and storing set image forming conditions in said first storage; a second storage connected to said input device, storing a history of input operations by a user using said input device; a registering device, connected to said image forming unit, said first storage and said second storage, responsive to completion of image formation by said image forming unit, for comparing said history stored in said second storage with a predetermined condition for determining whether the image forming conditions stored in said first storage are to be registered and for registering, if said history satisfies the predetermined condition, the image forming conditions stored in said first storage as image forming conditions that can be called by a unique identifier; and a calling device, responsive to a user input designating said identifier, for calling the image forming conditions corresponding to the identifier from said registering device and having the image forming conditions stored in said first storage.