IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD

摘要

Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of reducing possibility that small symbols and characters become invisible without impairing user's convenience even in the case of using a nongenuine replacement part. An image forming apparatus (100) is provided with: an image forming portion (103) for forming an image; a nongenuine product judging portion (101a) for judging whether or not a replacement part of the image forming portion (103) is a nongenuine product; an operation receiving portion (for example, an operating panel (102)) for receiving user operation including setting operation of an image forming condition; and a control portion (101) for controlling image formation of the image forming portion (103) based on the image forming condition set from the operation receiving portion. In the image forming apparatus (100), in a case where the replacement part of the image forming portion (103) is judged as a nongenuine product by the nongenuine product judging portion (101a), the control portion (101) prohibits setting operation concerning reduced printing among the setting operations of image forming conditions.

主权项

1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming portion for forming an image; a nongenuine product judging portion for judging whether or not a replacement part of the image forming portion is a nongenuine product; an operation receiving portion for receiving user operation including setting operation of an image forming condition; and a control portion for controlling image formation of the image forming portion based on the image forming condition set from the operation receiving portion, wherein in a case where the replacement part of the image forming portion is judged as a nongenuine product by the nongenuine product judging portion, the control portion prohibits setting operation concerning reduced printing among the setting operations of the image forming conditions.