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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsHiroyuki Kobayashi, Akinori Takeo, Aya Kasahara
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An image forming apparatus, and a method of controlling it. The apparatus performs, in a case where at least one function out of a plurality of functions of the apparatus ceases to be usable, degeneracy control for operating to provide functions other than the at least one function, and stores information indicating a degeneracy control state is entered. The apparatus controls so as to activate without initialization operation of an image forming mechanism in a case where it is determined that the activation is due to the return from a power saving mode and the information is stored and so as to activate with the initialization operation when the activation is due to a power of the apparatus being turned on.
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus having an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a control unit configured to control operation of the image forming unit, and a storage unit configured to store degeneracy information indicating that a function of the image forming unit is restricted due to degeneracy control being performed, the method comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.