Image forming apparatus and image forming method for making image output setting easily

摘要

An image forming apparatus is provided, in which the image forming apparatus includes: a document setting part for setting documents; an image input part for obtaining pieces of image data from the documents; and an image output part for printing or sending at least a piece of the image data, wherein, if a piece of image data obtained from a predetermined document in the documents is control image data, the image forming apparatus prints or sends pieces of image data of the documents other than the predetermined document according to an image output setting that corresponds to the control image data by using the image output part.