IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, IMAGE FORMING METHOD AND IMAGE FORMING PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily perform the operation that a plurality of bundles, wherein a plurality of paper media are bundled, are put together into one.

SOLUTION: An MFP has a calculator of the number of image-formed sheets 115, which calculates the number of image-formed sheets on which images are formed when images of image data are formed according to printing conditions, and a condition changing part 117 which changes the printing conditions if the number of image-formed sheets exceeds an upper bound value prespecified as the number of sheets that a post processor can fold at once. The condition changing part 117 includes a dividing part which divides a plurality of sheets on which images of a plurality of pages are formed by an image forming part into a plurality of groups if an inner folding method or a Z-folding method is set as a folding method by the post processor, and a folding method changing part 119 which changes to the Z-folding method if the inner folding method is set as a folding method by the post processor.

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