IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: OGINO KUMIKO
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 21.11.2019
• 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 notify an apparatus administrator of a state change of each unit.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an image output unit, a transport unit that transports a recording medium, a display unit that displays a screen, and a control unit that controls the units. The control unit detects a state change of each unit of the image forming apparatus, and exerts control to cause the display unit to display, in accordance with the detected state change of each unit, an image indicating the state change of each unit. The image indicating the state change of the unit includes a color and a figure which represent a reason of the state change.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】装置管理者に各部の状態の変化を報知する。【解決手段】画像形成部、画像出力部、記録媒体を搬送する搬送部、画面を表示する表示部、各部を制御する制御部を備えた画像形成装置であって、前記制御部は、画像形成装置の各部の状態の変化を検出し、前記検出した各部の状態の変化に応じて、前記表示部に前記各部の状態の変化を表す画像を表示するように制御し、前記各部の状態の変化を表す画像は、前記状態の変化の要因を表す配色や図形を含むことを特徴とする画像形成装置。【選択図】図1