Patent ID: 7738830

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a lining cover-sheet width acquiring section to acquire information with respect to a lining cover-sheet width; a cover-sheet image data acquiring section to acquire front cover-sheet image data, rear cover-sheet image data and lining cover-sheet image data; a cover-sheet image data arranging section to arrange the front cover-sheet image data and the rear cover-sheet image data, acquired by the cover-sheet image data acquiring section, in such a manner that a front cover sheet image and a rear cover sheet image are arranged at an interval of the lining cover-sheet width, acquired by the lining cover-sheet width acquiring section, and to arrange the lining cover-sheet image data, acquired by the cover-sheet image data acquiring section, in such a manner that a lining image center line, indicating a center position of an image area of a lining cover sheet image in its width direction, coincides with a cover sheet center line, indicating a center position of an image area of a total cover sheet image, including the front cover sheet image, the rear cover sheet image and the lining cover sheet image, in its width direction; and an image forming section to form the total cover sheet image, including the front cover sheet image, the rear cover sheet image and the lining cover sheet image, onto a recording medium, based on the front cover-sheet image data, the rear cover-sheet image data and the lining cover-sheet image data, which are arranged by the cover-sheet image data arranging section.