Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of recording medium housing portions in which recording mediums to be reused are discriminated and housed respectively for degradation regions that are erased image regions; an obtaining unit to obtain image data; a printing region discriminating unit to discriminate a printing region at the time of printing from the obtained image data to the recording medium; a selecting unit to select the recording medium housing portion in which the recording medium not including the degradation region corresponding to the printing region discriminated by the printing region discriminating unit is housed from a plurality of the recording medium housing portions; and a printing portion to print the image data obtained in the obtaining unit on the recording medium fed from the recording medium housing portion which is selected by the selecting unit.

Abstract: According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes a plurality of recording medium housing portions in which recording mediums to be reused are discriminated and housed respectively for degradation regions that are erased image regions; an obtaining unit to obtain image data; a printing region discriminating unit to discriminate a printing region at the time of printing from the obtained image data to the recording medium; a selecting unit to select the recording medium housing portion in which the recording medium not including the degradation region corresponding to the printing region discriminated by the printing region discriminating unit is housed from a plurality of the recording medium housing portions; and a printing portion to print the image data obtained in the obtaining unit on the recording medium fed from the recording medium housing portion which is selected by the selecting unit.

Abstract: An edit mode controller for use in editing magnetic tapes using multiple video tape recorders, in which when one of the recorders is placed in a still or pause mode while waiting for the dubbing location on the other tape to be found, prevents damage to the tape by the repeated scanning of the head in the pause mode by detecting the elapse of a predetermined time period and incrementally advacing the tape by a few number of tracks, then placing the recorder back into the pause mode. The control pulses normally found on video tapes are used to both advance the tape the desired increment and also to rewind the tape back to the desired starting point, once the dubbing point on the other tape has been found.