An image forming apparatus, which for the purpose of avoiding of a sheet of traffic jams for the detection of the nature of the pressure sheet is capable of

摘要

An image forming apparatus includes a recording sheet type detection device (40, 40') to automatically detect a type of a recording sheet (20), a setting device (206) to set an image forming condition by an operator, the image forming condition including the type of the recording sheet (20), an image forming device (1) to form a visible image on the recording sheet (20), a sheet feeding device (2) to feed the recording sheet (20) to the image forming device (1), and a controller (201) to control the image forming apparatus not to form an image on the recording sheet (20) when the image forming condition with regard to the type of the recording sheet (20) set by the operator does not match the type of the recording sheet (20) detected by the recording sheet type detection device (40, 40').