Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd.

Tsuyoshi Tooda

Atsushi Mori

Takayoshi Suzuki

Takeshi Yokoe

Hideharu Iwashita

Katsue Komaki

An image forming apparatus includes a communication unit, a prohibition unit, an execution unit, and a control unit. The communication unit communicates with an external apparatus. The prohibition unit prohibits the communication unit from communicating with the external apparatus when a command for executing initialization with respect to the image forming apparatus is specified. The execution unit executes a process for accepting set information of the initialization when the prohibition unit prohibits the communication unit from communication with the external apparatus. The control unit executes a process for informing that the initialization should be executed when an elapsed time of a waiting state where input of the set information is not executed exceeds a given period.

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Saitama, Japan

Tsuyoshi Tooda