Image forming apparatus with a substitute recording medium for an unavailable recording medium and method thereof

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• storage means for storing setting information including at least a size of a substitute recording medium;
• and
• processing means for executing a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in said storage means, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available,
• wherein said processing means invalidates the setting information with respect to corresponding pages of second and subsequent volumes during one print job when printing a plurality of volumes by a stacking or sorting operation.

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a storage configured to store setting information including at least a size of a substitute recording medium;
• and
• a processor configured to execute a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in the storage, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available,
• wherein the processor is configured to invalidate the setting information with respect to second and subsequent pages of the recording medium of identical size during one print job.

An image forming apparatus comprising:

• a storage configured to store setting information including at least a size of a substitute recording medium;
• and
• a processor configured to execute a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in the storage, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available,
• wherein processor is configured to invalidate the setting information with respect to corresponding pages of second and subsequent volumes during one print job when printing a plurality of volumes by a stacking or sorting operation.

An image forming method comprising:

• a reading step reading setting information which includes at least a size of a substitute recording medium from storage means;
• and
• a processing step executing a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in said storage means, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available,
• wherein said processing step invalidates the setting information with respect to second and subsequent pages of the recording medium of identical size during one print job.

An image forming method comprising:

• a reading step reading setting information which includes at least a size of a substitute recording medium from storage means;
• and
• a processing step executing a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in said storage means, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available,
• wherein said processing step invalidates the setting information with respect to corresponding pages of second and subsequent volumes during one print job when printing a plurality of volumes by a stacking or sorting operation.

An image forming method comprising:

• reading setting information which includes at least a size of a substitute recording medium from a storage;
• and
• executing a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in the storage, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available,
• wherein the executing the print instruction includes invalidating the setting information with respect to second and subsequent pages of the recording medium of identical size during one print job.

An image forming method comprising:

• reading setting information which includes at least a size of a substitute recording medium from a storage;
• and
• executing a print instruction by automatically changing a size of a recording medium to be used to the size of the substitute recording medium based on the setting information stored in the storage, when the size of the recording medium specified by the print instruction is not available,
• wherein the executing the print instruction includes invalidating the setting information with respect to corresponding pages of second and subsequent volumes during one print job when printing a plurality of volumes by a stacking or sorting operation.