Image forming apparatus that acquires fixed data and plurality of pieces of variable data according to user's instruction, and executes variable printing

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a storage device;
• an instruction input device into which an instruction of a user is inputted;
• a data input device into which a plurality of pieces of variable data are inputted;
• an image forming device that forms an image on a recording medium;
• a display device;
• and
• a control device including a processor, and configured to act, when the processor executes a control program, as a controller that:
• causes the display device, upon receipt of an instruction designating fixed data through the instruction input device, to display a fixed image represented by the designated fixed data;
• generates, upon receipt of an instruction designating a position for generating a first region in the displayed fixed image through the instruction input device, a first position information indicating the position of the first region in the fixed data on a basis of the designated position, and stores the first position information in the storage device;
• acquires, upon receipt of an instruction designating the plurality of pieces of variable data to be associated with the first region through the instruction input device, the designated plurality of pieces of variable data through the data input device;
• and
• causes the image forming device to form on the recording medium an image, in which an variable image represented by each of the acquired plurality of pieces of variable data is inserted as replacement, for each page, in the first region in the fixed image on a basis of the fixed data, the first position information, and the acquired plurality of pieces of variable data,
• wherein the controller:
• generates, upon receipt of an instruction designating a size and shape of the first region through the instruction input device, size information indicating a size of the first region with respect to an entirety of the fixed data, and shape information indicating a shape of the first region, according to the designated size and shape, and stores the size information and the shape information in the storage device;
• and
• causes the image forming device to form on the recording medium the image, in which the variable image is inserted as replacement, for each page, in the first region of the size indicated by the size information and the shape indicated by the shape information.