IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: OTA YUYA, KUMAKURA NOZOMI, NAKABAYASHI JUNICHIRO, KIMURA KUNIYASU, NISHIMURA SHUNSUKE, INOUE SEITA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 14.03.2019
• Subjects: CINEMATOGRAPHY; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHOTOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; i.e. MECHANISMS PRINTING OTHERWISE THAN FROM A FORME; LINING MACHINES; MAGNETOGRAPHY; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION; PRINTING; SELECTIVE PRINTING MECHANISMS; STAMPS; TRANSPORTING; TYPEWRITERS

To provide an image forming apparatus which properly presents job end time to a user.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus includes: printing means for printing images on one or more sheets on the basis of a job received by receiving means; prediction means of predicting first processing time, as processing time from the start to the end of processing the job received by the receiving means, and second processing time which is longer than the first processing time; control means of displaying end time of the job received by the receiving means, on the basis of the processing time predicted by the prediction means, to a user; and selection means of allowing the user to select display mode. The control means displays first end time based on the first processing time, as the end time of the job received by the receiving means, when first mode is selected as the display mode, or displays second end time based on the second processing time, as the end time of the job received by the receiving means, when second mode is selected as the display mode.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 6 【課題】ジョブの終了時間を適切にユーザに提示できる画像形成装置を提供する。【解決手段】画像形成装置は、受付手段が受け付けたジョブに基づき１つ以上のシートに画像を印刷する処理を行う印刷手段と、受付手段が受け付けたジョブの開始から完了までの処理時間として、第１処理時間及び第１処理時間より長い第２処理時間を予測可能な予測手段と、予測手段が予測した処理時間に基づき受付手段が受け付けたジョブの終了時間をユーザに表示する制御を行う制御手段と、ユーザに表示モードを選択させる選択手段と、を備え、制御手段は、表示モードとして第１モードが選択されていると、受付手段が受け付けたジョブの終了時間として、第１処理時間に基づく第１終了時間を表示し、表示モードとして第２モードが選択されていると、受付手段が受け付けたジョブの終了時間として、第２処理時間に基づく第２終了時間を表示する制御を行う。【選択図】図６