Patent ID: 7881622

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a feeding portion that feeds plural sheets of prestored paper, one at a time; an image forming portion that forms images on the sheets of paper fed from the feeding portion; a discharge portion into which are ejected image-formed sheets on which images have been formed in the image forming portion; a paper transport path that transports paper from the feeding portion to the discharge portion via the image forming portion; a plurality of detecting members that detect a transport state of paper at a plurality of detection locations which include the feeding portion, between the feeding portion and the image forming portion, within the image forming portion, between the image forming portion and the discharge portion, and the discharge portion on the paper transport path; and a control portion that is configured, when a paper jam at any of the plurality of detection locations is detected based on the detection results of the plurality of detecting members, to display, on an indicator, information identifying as locations of papers to be eliminated from the paper transport path, the detection location at which the jam was detected, and the image forming portion when paper is detected by the detecting members as present in the image forming portion; wherein the control portion is further configured to control the feeding operation of the feeding portion, the paper transport operation of the paper transport path and the image forming operation of the image forming portion, to include a storage portion for storing information identifying an image to be formed on paper stopped in the image forming portion if information identifying the image forming portion as the location at which paper to be eliminated from the paper transport path has stopped is displayed on the indicator, and to perform the image forming operation in relation to a missed pages notification image notifying that the image which was to be formed on eliminated paper will be formed on paper and in relation to the image identified by the information stored in the storage portion, once the image forming operation restarted after the jam.