Image forming apparatus capable of controlling sheet discharge according to presence or absence of user

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a document reading device that reads an image of an original document and generates image data representing the document image;
• a sheet feed device that feeds a sheet;
• an image forming device that forms an image on the sheet to make a printed matter;
• a sheet output tray;
• a conveyance device that conveys the sheet from the sheet feed device via the image forming device to the sheet output tray;
• a display device;
• a touch panel laid over the display device;
• and
• a control device including a processor and functioning, through the processor executing a control program, as
• a controller that, upon acceptance of an instruction to execute a print job through the touch panel, controls operations of the sheet feed device, the conveyance device, and the image forming device to allow the document image represented by the image data generated by the document reading device to be formed on the sheet to make the printed matter and allow the printed matter to be discharged to the sheet output tray, and
• a user presence/absence determiner that determines whether a user of the image forming apparatus is present or absent,
• wherein when the user presence/absence determiner determines that the user is present, the controller controls, before printing for at least a last sheet in the print job, the operations of the sheet feed device and the conveyance device to allow a sheet to be discharged to the sheet output tray without allowing the image forming device to form the document image on the sheet.