| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus and an image forming method, in which an image on an original document is read with the image divided into plural areas, a copy image is formed by synthesizing images of the divided areas, and the copy image is printed on a surface of a target image forming medium. The apparatus includes an operation panel which displays plural icons concerning predetermined modes, to allow an icon concerning a desired mode to be selected, a scanner section which reads images of the divided areas of the original document, a hard disk which stores image data read by the scanner section, an image processing section which reads plural image data pieces from the hard disk and performs minification processing and synthesis processing thereon, to obtain one copy image, a printer section which prints the one copy image on a surface of the target image forming medium, and each of the icons indicates an order in which an operator should set the divided plural areas of the original document on an original document mount table.
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