Patent ID: 7496300

Claim:
An image-forming device comprising: an image-forming unit that forms images on a recording medium; a recording medium accommodating unit that accommodates recording media to be supplied to the image-forming unit; a detecting unit comprising at least one sensor that detects an existence of a recording medium on a conveying path along which the recording medium is conveyed from the recording medium accommodating unit to the image-forming unit and provides detection results indicative of whether the recording medium exists on the conveying path; a removing unit that determines, when the image-forming unit is not performing an operation for forming images on a recording medium, whether a recording medium exists on the conveying path that should be removed from the conveying path based on the detection results provided by the detecting unit, and performs a recording medium removal process for removing the recording medium from the conveying path upon determining the existence of a recording medium to be removed from the conveying path; and a manual feeding slot through which a recording medium can be directly inserted onto the conveying path, wherein the removing unit determines whether the recording medium detected by the detecting unit is a recording medium that has been inserted through the manual feeding slot, and when the removing unit determines that the recording medium has been inserted through the manual feeding slot, the removing unit determines that the recording medium need not be removed from the conveying path and, does not perform the recording medium removal process.