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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 13, 2012
Keishi Inaba, Yokohama, JP;
Koji Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Asano, Yokohama, JP;
Kiyokazu Umimura, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Naya, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuichi Konosu, Saitama, JP;
Keishi Inaba, Yokohama, JP;
Koji Shimizu, Tokyo, JP;
Kohei Asano, Yokohama, JP;
Kiyokazu Umimura, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuji Naya, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuichi Konosu, Saitama, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus equipped with a sleep function and for forming an image using an image forming unit and a control method thereof. The image forming apparatus includes a control unit that controls the image forming unit. When a job is received in a sleep state, a port number of the received job is discriminated, whether or not to perform initialization processing of the image forming unit is determined based on the discriminated port number, and in a case that it is determined that initialization processing of the image forming unit is necessary, initialization processing of the image forming unit is started and thereafter the control unit is controlled to start processing of the job.