| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus that can be operated when a cartridge that has an image holding part and from which a toner container is removable, by storing both information about the toner container and information about the image holding part in one storage body on the cartridge. <P>SOLUTION: After a toner container is detected to be empty and an anchoring state of the toner container by an anchoring mechanism is made at least freely releasable, if the toner container is detected not to be empty by an empty detection unit, information stored in a storage body is rewritten. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |
