APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR FORMING IMAGE AND APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING AND MEMORY MEDIUM

• Main Author: KUTSUWADA SATORU
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 26.09.2000
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRICITY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve a productivity of jobs to be output by managing printing requests input by each input means as independent jobs, setting a priority of the jobs for each input means and controlling to output image data to an image- forming means according to the priority and a use state of a paper discharge process device. SOLUTION: A copy control part 2, a FAX control part 3 and a PDL print control part 4 are controlled by a job management part 1 in a control part 100 of the image-forming apparatus. When a user mode key of an operation part is depressed, a screen showing a list of user modes is displayed to a liquid crystal display part. A screen for entering a mode of setting a priority of prints or a mode of setting a special tray is also displayed. For example, when the priority is set in an order from a copy job to a FAX job to a print job, the print job is interrupted when a start request for the copy job is sent to the job management part 1 during the execution of the print job, and the copy job is executed with priority.