Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Yuka Saitoh

Takeshi Fujita

Yasuyuki Igarashi

Toshio Kitazawa

Yoshiya Inoue

An image forming apparatus includes a sensor, a notification unit, and a controller. The sensor detects a supply-end condition of consumable supplies. The notification unit notifies a message based on the supply-end condition detected by the sensor, and provides an operation key used for setting a condition for the image forming apparatus. The notification unit includes a print-stop setting and a print-continue setting, settable for a consumable supply and used when a printing operation is suspended due to an occurrence of the supply-end condition. The controller suspends the printing operation based on the print-stop setting and continues the suspended printing operation based on the print-continue setting.

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Kamakura, Japan

Yuka Saitoh