IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve accuracy for determining whether all paper sheets have been collected from a paper sheet discharge portion.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus includes: a job reception portion for receiving from each external apparatus a request to execute a print job; an image for...

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Zusammenfassung:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve accuracy for determining whether all paper sheets have been collected from a paper sheet discharge portion.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus includes: a job reception portion for receiving from each external apparatus a request to execute a print job; an image forming portion for forming an image on a paper sheet; a paper sheet discharge portion to which a paper sheet is discharged; a discharge portion for discharging to the paper sheet discharge portion a paper sheet on which an image has been formed; a print control portion for causing the image forming portion to form an image on a paper sheet based on the print job and for causing the discharge portion to discharge to the paper sheet discharge portion the paper sheet on which the image has been formed; a discharge detection portion for detecting presence or absence of a paper sheet in the paper sheet discharge portion; a person detection portion for detecting presence or absence of a person within a predetermined distance from the image forming apparatus; and a collection determination portion for, after the person detection portion has detected the presence of a person, when the person detection portion has not detected the presence of a person and the discharge detection portion has not detected the presence of a paper sheet, determining that all paper sheets discharged to the paper sheet discharge portion have been collected.