Patent ID: 8218161

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a selection section which selects a print target to be printed; an input section which inputs a print job comprising instructions for printing the print target selected by the selection section; an instruction section which instructs to continue the print job; a printing section which executes a trial printing of printing a part of the print job including a plurality of pages input by the input section as a trial page, and thereafter, restarting and finishing the print job in response to that the instruction section instructs to continue the print job; and an extraction section which extracts a page, which satisfies a predetermined extraction condition, from among the plurality of pages included in the print job, wherein the printing section prints at least a part of the page extracted by the extraction section as the trial page, wherein the extraction section extracts a page having the extraction condition selected from the group consisting of: a page comprising a color character and a page comprising an image, as the pare that satisfies the predetermined extraction condition, and wherein, when the print job does not include a page satisfying the predetermined extraction condition, the extraction section extracts a first page of the print job as the trial page.