Image Forming Apparatus and Image Forming System

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a reception unit configured to receive a print job;
• a print unit configured to execute the print job received by the reception unit to print an image;
• an adjustment unit configured to execute an image quality adjustment for the printing;
• a determination unit configured to determine whether an adjustment execution condition is to be met during the execution of the print job;
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• a control unit configured to execute a priority process which, when a condition meeting print job, for which the determination unit determines that the adjustment execution condition is to be met, includes a color page, causes the adjustment unit to execute the image quality adjustment before a start of printing of a first color page in the condition meeting print job.

An image forming system comprising:

• a generation unit configured to generate a print job;
• a reception unit configured to receive the print job generated by the generation unit;
• a print unit configured to execute the print job received by the reception unit to print an image;
• an adjustment unit configured to execute an image quality adjustment for the printing;
• a determination unit configured to determine whether an adjustment execution condition is to be met during the execution of the print job;
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• a control unit configured to execute a priority process which, when the determination unit determines that the adjustment execution condition is to be met, causes the adjustment unit to execute the image quality adjustment before a start of the execution of a condition meeting print job, for which the determination unit determines that the adjustment execution condition is to be met.

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a reception unit configured to receive a print job;
• a print unit configured to execute the print job received by the reception unit to print an image;
• an adjustment unit configured to execute an image quality adjustment for the printing;
• a determination unit configured to determine whether an adjustment execution condition is to be met during the execution of the print job;
• a designation unit configured to, when the determination unit determines that the adjustment execution condition is to be met, designate a timing at which the image quality adjustment is executed;
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• a control unit configured to cause the adjustment unit to execute the image quality adjustment at the timing designated by the designation unit.