# US 2025/0208564 A1 · Image forming apparatus and non-transitory computer readable storage medium > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2025/0208564 A1 - Document ID: US20250208564A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/668,276 - Filed: 2024-05-20 - Published: 2025-06-26 - Earliest claimed: 2023-12-20 - Assignees: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. - Applicants: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. - Inventors: Muneyuki NISHIMURA; Hirotaka SATO; Tomohiro YAMADA; Masae TAKABAYASHI; Tomoyasu TANAKA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250208564A1 ## CPC - G03G 21/1889: {for auto-setting of process parameters, lifetime, usage} - G03G 21/1647: {Mechanical connection means} - G03G 2221/1838: Autosetting of process parameters - G03G: ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; MAGNETOGRAPHY ## Abstract An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image using an attachment body that has been attached; and a processor that performs setting for the image forming unit, the setting corresponding to the attachment body to be attached, the processor performing, in a state where the attachment body is attached, setting corresponding to another attachment body to be attached in place of an attached attachment body that is the attachment body being attached. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An image forming apparatus comprising: an image forming unit that forms an image using an attachment body that has been attached; and a processor that performs setting for the image forming unit, the setting corresponding to the attachment body to be attached, the processor performing, in a state where the attachment body is attached, setting corresponding to another attachment body to be attached in place of an attached attachment body that is the attachment body being attached. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the processor performs the setting corresponding to the another attachment body when there is no schedule to form an image with the image forming unit to which the attached attachment body is attached. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the image forming units are provided, the attachment body is attached to each of the image forming units, and the processor performs the setting corresponding to the another attachment body when there is no schedule to form an image by using the attached attachment body that is attached to a place where the another attachment body is to be attached. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The image forming apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the processor performs the setting corresponding to the another attachment body even when there is a schedule to form an image with another image forming unit other than the image forming unit to which the attached attachment body is attached. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a plurality of the image forming units are provided, the attachment body is attached to each of the image forming units, and the processor performs the setting corresponding to the another attachment body when a utilization print job that is a print job utilizing the attached attachment body is not included in print jobs to be executed by the image forming apparatus. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The image forming apparatus according to claim 5, wherein when the utilization print job is included in the print jobs to be executed by the image forming apparatus, the processor performs the setting corresponding to the another attachment body after the utilization print job is executed. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The image forming apparatus according to claim 6, wherein when a non-utilization print job that is a print job that is executed prior to the utilization print job and does not utilize the attached attachment body is included, in addition to the utilization print job, in the print jobs to be executed by the image forming apparatus, the processor changes an order of execution of the print jobs to cause the utilization print job to be executed prior to the non-utilization print job. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the processor performs the setting corresponding to the another attachment body, the processor outputs information indicating that image formation cannot be performed by utilizing the image forming unit to which the attached attachment body is attached. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, wherein when the image forming apparatus receives a utilization print job that is a print job utilizing the attached attachment body after starting the setting corresponding to the another attachment body, the processor prevents the utilization print job from being executed. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The image forming apparatus according to claim 9, wherein the processor causes the utilization print job not to be executed and causes the utilization print job to be stored in an information storage unit provided in the image forming apparatus. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The image forming apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the processor causes the utilization print job stored in the information storage unit to be executed when the attached attachment body that has been removed in association with attachment of the another attachment body in place of the attached attachment body is attached again. ### Claim 12 A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program to be executed by a computer provided in an image forming apparatus, the image forming apparatus comprising an image forming unit that forms an image by using an attachment body that has been attached, the program causing the computer provided in the image forming apparatus to implement a function of performing setting for the image forming unit and corresponding to the attachment body to be attached, the function of performing, in a state where the attachment body is attached, setting corresponding to another attachment body to be attached in place of an attached attachment body that is the attachment body being attached.