Image forming apparatus having simultaneous reading and printing operations and job recovery therefor

Claim 1

An image forming apparatus comprising: a memory; an image reader capable of accepting a plurality of jobs and capable of reading images of the plurality of jobs one by one, wherein image data read by the reader is stored in the memory; a printer which prints images based on the image data outputted from the memory; wherein said reader and printer are capable of simultaneously performing an image reading operation and a printer operation respectively; continuing means for, when a printing operation of a first job is stopped and at least one image of a second job remains to be read, other than the image being read at the time of stopping of the first job, continuing an image reading operation of a second job until reading of all remaining images of the second job is finished; and prohibiting means for prohibiting an image reading operation of a third job, which is scheduled to be read after the second job, when the printing operation of the first job is stopped and reading of all remaining images of the second job is finished.