Image forming apparatus and method of reducing power consumption of communication module

摘要

An image forming apparatus and an image forming method include a communication interface to communicate with a terminal device, an image former to form an image of data provided from the terminal device through the communication, and a controller to determine whether there is an image forming job of the data during a preset time, and, when determining that no image forming job is received, changing a transmission cycle of a beacon signal sent to synchronize with the terminal device or to provide device information.