IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

摘要

An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an image receiving unit, an aggregate printing process unit, a size receiving unit, a size judgment unit, and an aggregate sheet number determination unit. In the case where the size judgment unit judges that an aggregate printing process is executable in such a manner that the smallest size (aggregate smallest size) of characters included in an aggregate print image formed on a sheet by the aggregate printing process is not smaller than the lower limit value (lower limit size) of the size of characters included in the aggregate print image received by the size receiving unit, the aggregate sheet number determination unit determines the aggregate sheet number in such a manner that the aggregate smallest size is not smaller than the lower limit size, and the aggregate printing process unit executes the aggregate printing process using the aggregate sheet number.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus, comprising:
an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet; an image receiving unit configured to receive the image including characters; an aggregate printing process unit configured to execute an aggregate printing process of aggregating received character images received by the image receiving unit and causing the image forming unit to form an aggregate print image on one of sheets; a size receiving unit configured to receive a lower limit value of a size of characters included in the aggregate print image to be formed on the sheet by the aggregate printing process; a size judgment unit configured to judge that the aggregate printing process is executable, in the case where the aggregate printing process is executable in such a manner that an aggregate smallest size is not smaller than a lower limit size, the aggregate smallest size being a smallest size of the characters included in the aggregate print image, the lower limit size being the lower limit value of the size of characters received by the size receiving unit; and an aggregate sheet number determination unit configured to execute an aggregate sheet number determination process of determining an aggregate sheet number in such a manner that the aggregate smallest size is not smaller than the lower limit size, in the case where the size judgment unit judges that the aggregate printing process is executable, the aggregate sheet number being the number of sheets of images to be aggregated on one of sheets by the aggregate printing process, wherein the aggregate printing process unit executes the aggregate printing process using the aggregate sheet number determined by the aggregate sheet number determination unit, in the case where the size judgment unit judges that the aggregate printing process is executable.