Image forming apparatus

An image forming apparatus, comprising:

• an image forming device to form a toner image on a recording sheet in accordance with a border print mode being one of a bordered print mode and a borderless print mode, the image forming device configured to form the toner image in the bordered print mode so that a periphery of the recording sheet is surrounded by a margin, the image forming device configured to form the toner image up to an end of the recording sheet in the borderless print mode so that at least a portion of the periphery of the recording sheet has no margin;
• a print condition setting unit that presets, at a time different from a time of printing, for a type of recording sheet of a plurality of types of recording sheets, as a preset print condition, the border print mode indicating whether the bordered print mode or the borderless print mode is to be performed whenever the toner image is formed on the type of the recording sheet, wherein the print condition setting unit includes a memory that stores, as the preset print condition, the border print mode preset for the type of recording sheet;
• and
• a print mode input unit to allow an operator to input a print mode and preset, for the recording sheet, as the preset print condition, the border print mode,
• wherein, at the time of printing, the print condition setting unit automatically retrieves, from the memory, based on selection by the operator of the type of recording sheet, the stored border print mode previously selected by the operator using the print mode input unit, and sets the border print mode to the retrieved border print mode, without the operator selecting the border print mode at the time of printing.