| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To put off the time when recording is impossible by making a detection means detect that a recording unfeasible state comes soon and permitting the recording of data supplied from an external equipment in accordance with the kind of the data at the time of detecting. SOLUTION: When an instruction to start read by an image reader 42 is issued and the remaining amount of toner is sufficient, the read of an original is started in a facsimile control part 8. In a state where a near-empty flag is set, recording image data whose priority is high is allowed and recording the image data whose priority is low is inhibited. It is possible to make the speed of decreasing the remaining amount of toner low after the remaining amount of toner shows a near-empty state. Therefore, the term attained until the remaining amount of toner shows the near-empty state and becomes the amount by which recording is impossible is prolonged and the term when a toner remaining amount display device is in a flickered state is prolonged. |
