Patent ID: 7852504

Claim:
An image forming device, comprising: a transmission/reception section which functions as an interface to a network; a control section for generating a tray selection signal in accordance with a print job inputted to the transmission/reception section, said print job including a print condition indicative of a condition for printing; and a sheet feeding tray section, having a plurality of sheet trays capable of storing sheets of different types therein, which supplies a sheet from one of the sheet trays that has been selected in accordance with the tray selection signal transmitted from the control section, wherein said control section includes: an operation control section for extracting the print condition from the print job and for obtaining an order table, indicative of a priority based on the print condition that has been extracted, from setting information, indicative of a sheet type priority indicating a type of paper corresponding to the print condition, wherein the order table specifies one of the sheet trays; and a tray selection section for generating the tray selection signal for selecting one of the sheet trays, in accordance with the order table transmitted from the operation control section.