Image forming apparatus, image forming method, and computer-readable medium

An image forming method performed by an image forming apparatus provided with an image memory, the image forming method comprising:

• printing print data;
• determining whether all pages of the print data can be stored in the image memory as reprint data;
• storing data of a first page to an N-th page of the print data into the image memory in a case where it is determined that all pages of the print data cannot be entirely stored in the image memory as the reprint data;
• storing the data of the first page to the N-th page of the print data into the image memory;
• accepting a reprint start instruction;
• and
• receiving data of an N+1-th page to a final page of the print data,
• wherein the image forming apparatus prints the stored data of the first page to the N-th page and the image forming apparatus receives the data of the N+1-th page to the final page to print the received data in response to accepting the reprint start instruction.

A computer readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer provided with an image memory to execute an image forming method, the image forming method comprising:

• printing print data;
• determining whether all pages of the print data can be stored in the image memory as reprint data;
• storing data of a first page to an N-th page of the print data into the image memory in a case where it is determined that all pages of the print data cannot be entirely stored in the image memory as the reprint data;
• storing the data of the first page to the N-th page of the print data into the image memory;
• accepting a reprint start instruction;
• and
• receiving data of an N+1-th page to a final page of the print data,
• wherein the image forming apparatus prints the stored data of the first page to the N-th page according to the reprint start instruction, and the image forming apparatus receives the data of the N+1-th page to the final page to print the received data in response to accepting the reprint start instruction.