Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a cutter, an image forming section, and a controller. The cutter performs cutting of a print medium on the basis of a cutting instruction. The image forming section performs, on the basis of print data, image formation on the print medium with use of a consumable material. The controller calculates, on the basis of the print data, an estimated use amount on the basis of a section page group as a unit, and determines, on the basis of the estimated use amount and a usable amount, whether the image forming section is able to use the consumable material. The section page group is a page group, of the print medium, sectioned in accordance with the cutting instruction. The estimated use amount is an amount of the consumable material to be used. The usable amount is a remaining amount of the consumable material that is usable.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a cutter, an image forming section, and a controller. The cutter performs cutting of a print medium on the basis of a cutting instruction. The image forming section performs, on the basis of print data, image formation on the print medium with use of a consumable material. The controller calculates, on the basis of the print data, an estimated use amount on the basis of a section page group as a unit, and determines, on the basis of the estimated use amount and a usable amount, whether the image forming section is able to use the consumable material. The section page group is a page group, of the print medium, sectioned in accordance with the cutting instruction. The estimated use amount is an amount of the consumable material to be used. The usable amount is a remaining amount of the consumable material that is usable.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage section that stores a medium setting including information representing a printing area on a printing medium, a printing section that performs printing on the printing medium based on the medium setting stored in the storage section, a determining section that determines whether a first medium setting included in a print job sent from an information processing apparatus and including information representing a printing area on a printing medium differs from a second medium setting stored as the medium setting in the storage section, and a controller that changes the medium setting stored in the storage section from the second medium setting to the first medium setting, when the determining section determines that the first medium setting differs from the second medium setting.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a print medium conveying section, and a controller. The print medium conveying section conveys a continuous print medium to the image forming section. The controller receives job data and causes the image forming section to perform, on the continuous print medium, an image forming operation based on the job data. The job data includes cuttable position data related to a cuttable position on the continuous print medium. When a pause signal is received, the controller causes, on a basis of the cuttable position data, the image forming operation to be continued up to an image forming end position on the continuous print medium, and thereafter pauses the image forming operation. The pause signal gives an instruction to pause the image forming operation. The image forming end position corresponds to the cuttable position.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes a storage section that stores a medium setting including information representing a printing area on a printing medium, a printing section that performs printing on the printing medium based on the medium setting stored in the storage section, a determining section that determines whether a first medium setting included in a print job sent from an information processing apparatus and including information representing a printing area on a printing medium differs from a second medium setting stored as the medium setting in the storage section, and a controller that changes the medium setting stored in the storage section from the second medium setting to the first medium setting, when the determining section determines that the first medium setting differs from the second medium setting.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for receiving data from a host device to print on a print medium includes a termination code string comparison table for storing a detection termination code string to detect a termination code string from the data; and a reception control unit for detecting a candidate of the termination code string from the data. The reception control unit compares the candidate with the termination code string to determine whether the termination code string matched to the candidate is stored in the termination code string comparison table. The reception control unit determines the candidate to be the termination code string when the reception control unit determines that the termination code string matched to the candidate is registered in the termination code string comparison table.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for receiving data from a host device to print on a print medium includes a termination code string comparison table for storing a detection termination code string to detect a termination code string from the data; and a reception control unit for detecting a candidate of the termination code string from the data. The reception control unit compares the candidate with the termination code string to determine whether the termination code string matched to the candidate is stored in the termination code string comparison table. The reception control unit determines the candidate to be the termination code string when the reception control unit determines that the termination code string matched to the candidate is registered in the termination code string comparison table.