Patent ID: 8630014

Claim:
An image processing apparatus connected to an image forming apparatus, that has a document processing section for performing a creation and an editing of document data of a print object document based on document size information; and an instructing section for instructing printing of the print object document, comprising: an operation detecting section that detects an operation of the document processing section; a document size obtaining section that obtains the document size information to mean at least the size of a direction orthogonal to the print medium feed direction; a medium size obtaining section that obtains medium size information of print mediums set in the image forming apparatus that the medium size information means at least the size of a direction orthogonal to the print medium feed direction; a comparing and judging section that compares the document size information and the medium size information that are obtained when the operation detecting section detects an operation of the document processing section, and judges whether or not the document size information and the medium size information are consistent; and a reporting section that reports an inconsistency to a user when the document size information and the medium size information are not consistent.