| CPC G06F 3/121 (2013.01) [G06F 3/1234 (2013.01)] | 19 Claims |
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1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
an image forming engine to form an image on a recording medium; and
circuitry configured to:
interrupt an image formation by the image forming engine in response to a malfunction;
detect a recording medium on which the image formation is interrupted;
notify an external device of a detection result of the recording medium;
detect an image forming status of the recording medium on which the image forming is interrupted from a relative positional relationship of the recording medium with respect to a transfer mechanism and an image area size of the recording medium; and
notify the external device of information indicating the image forming status of the recording medium on which the image formation is interrupted,
wherein the image forming status indicates a degree of completion of transferring the image onto the recording medium.
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