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AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorKentaro TESHIMA
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To provide an image forming device that allows for quick actual start for printing a document described by a page describing language even while an auxiliary storage device such as an HDD is in an unmount state in sleep mode or the like. A main controller checks, in sleep mode, for a mount state of the auxiliary storage device, upon receipt of a request from an external device to process for printing a document described by a page describing language. Then, the main controller, upon judgement of the mount state of the auxiliary storage device, controls for storing printing data set related to the printing document temporally in the auxiliary storage device. On the contrary, the main controller, upon judgement of the unmount state of the auxiliary storage device, controls for storing the printing data set in a random access memory.
An image forming device with a sleep function, comprising:
An image forming device with a sleep function, comprising:
An image forming method that is executed by an image forming device with a sleep function, the method comprising the steps of:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.