IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND POWER CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR

摘要

An image forming apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: an image-formation processing unit configured to perform processing for forming an image; a power control unit configured to control power supply to the image-formation processing unit to make it possible to switch an image formable state for supplying power to enable the image-formation processing unit to immediately perform the processing for image formation and an electricity saving state for reducing the power supply and performing electricity saving; and a power key configured to be once activated to thereby control the power control unit to transition the image forming apparatus from the image formable state to the electricity saving state and activated again to thereby control the power control unit to return the image forming apparatus from the electricity saving state to the image formable state.