FACSIMILE APPARATUS AND PRINTING METHOD FOR FACSIMILE APPARATUS

摘要

A facsimile apparatus is configured execute, as a reception method, a direct-print reception or a memory reception; switch the reception method from the direct-print reception to the memory reception when an instruction to execute a print job is received when the direct-print reception being executed; execute interruption printing by causing the printing device to print images in accordance with the print job after the reception method is switched to the memory reception; determine whether available capacity of the storage device used in the memory reception is less than a threshold value when the memory reception is being executed; stop the interruption printing when the available capacity of the storage device is less than the threshold value; and execute a particular printing process to print the facsimile data in the storage device and release the storage area corresponding to the facsimile data representing the printed image after the interruption printing is stopped.

主权项

1. A facsimile apparatus, comprising:
a facsimile communication device configured to execute a facsimile communication; a printing device configured to print an image on a printing sheet; a storage device; and a controller, wherein the controller is configured to execute:
a reception process in which the controller executes, as a reception method, one of a direct-print reception and a memory reception, the controller causing the printing device to print an image represented by facsimile data on the printing sheet in response to receipt of the facsimile data in accordance with the direct-print reception, the controller stores the facsimile data in a storage area allocated in the storage device in accordance with the memory reception;a switching process in which the controller switches the reception method from the direct-print reception to the memory reception when an instruction to execute a print job associating printing operation is received when the controller is executing the direct-print reception;an interruption printing process in which the controller causes the printing device to print images in accordance with the print job after the reception method is switched to the memory reception;a determination process in which the controller determines whether available capacity of the storage device used in the memory reception is less than a threshold value while the memory reception is being executed;a stoppage process in which the controller stops the interruption printing process when it is determined in the determination step that the available capacity of the storage device is less than the threshold value; anda particular printing process in which the controller causes the printing device to print the facsimile data stored by the memory reception in the storage device and releases the storage area corresponding to the facsimile data representing the image which has been printed by the printing device after the interruption printing is stopped in the stoppage process.