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Date of Patent:
Feb. 12, 2008

Filed:

Mar. 02, 2005
Applicant:

Atsushi Takahashi, Saitama, JP;

Inventor:

Atsushi Takahashi, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03G 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Respective operation mode histories are stored in the main body NVM of an image forming device. The main body NVM stores an operation mode just before the turning-off of the power supply. When the power supply of the image forming device is turned on, a CPU discriminates whether a replacement unit having been attached is a genuine type or one other than the genuine type. When an operation mode just before the turning-off of the power supply differs from an operation mode corresponding to the replacement unit having been attached, such a fact is displayed on a UI device. When a user confirms the display on the UI device, the image forming device is controlled by the operation mode corresponding to the replacement unit.


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