Image forming apparatus

摘要

According to embodiments, an image forming apparatus has a cassette section for holding sheets, a conveying section for conveying the sheet, an image forming section that forms the image on the sheet conveyed by the conveying section, a determining section that determines the type of the sheet fed from the cassette, and a display section that displays different messages corresponding to the type of the sheet if a jam of the sheet has occurred while the sheet is conveyed in the conveying section. The source of a sheet for printing thereon may be changed if a threshold number of paper jams occur using paper fed from a particular cassette.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a cassette unit for holding sheets to be used for forming an image; a conveying unit configured to convey a sheet; an image forming unit configured to form the image on the sheet conveyed by the conveying unit; a sensor configured to detect a jam of the sheet; a control unit configured to determine, after the sensor detects the jam, whether the sheet jammed during conveyance from the cassette unit is a new sheet or a used sheet; and a display unit controlled by the control unit to display a first jam message indicating that a jam of the new sheet has occurred and a second jam message indicating that a jam of the used sheet has occurred.