Combination type image forming apparatus

摘要

An image forming apparatus including CPU can eliminate an influence of a difference in access time by selecting a deletion mode of whether the image information of each page is deleted each time when printing of the page of the last copy of an original is finished or the image information of all the pages is in a lump deleted when printing of all the copies of the last copy of the original is finished in a sort mode according to whether or not a hard disk device is mounted when power is applied to the apparatus and enables at least an image information of a page read by a scanner to effectively create a file by generating near memory full in file creation of an image information, by switching possibility levels of concurrent operations of jobs based on the presence or absence of the hard disk device and a capacity of RAM.