| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus that ensures the throughput of the print job adaptable to the state of its use by a user and suppresses the wear of a process unit adaptable to the state of its use by a user. <P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus is characterized in that image formation processing is applied to image data in units of print jobs in a print mode of either one of a single-color print mode and a color print mode, the print mode is controlled to become the color print mode from the first page of the image data to a page of a designated page number, the print mode is controlled to become either one of the single-color print mode and the color print mode in the case of reaching the designated page number, and the predetermined page number is changed based on the number of the print jobs in the case that the image formation processing is applied a predetermined number of times. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT |
