IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM FOR CAUSING COMPUTER TO EXECUTE CONTROL METHOD

• Main Authors: YAMAHATA TAKETOSHI, KAWAMURA YUJI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 13.01.2022
• 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 that can receive a plurality of jobs without a refund.SOLUTION: Processing executed by an image forming apparatus includes the steps of: displaying, on a display, the fact that reservation for a next job can be received (S1010); receiving input of the setting of a job (S1015); after a Start button is depressed (YES in step S1020), after the completion of reading of all documents (YES in step S1030), when a sufficient amount of consumables for printing remain (YES in S1040), calculating the amount of money (S1060); displaying a bar code for billing (S1070); after the billing (YES in step S1080), completing the reservation of the next job (S1085); and when no consumables remain (NO in step S1040), based on an instruction not to continue the job (NO in step S1050), discarding the job (S1055).SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 10 【課題】返金することなく複数ジョブを受付可能な画像形成装置を提供する。【解決手段】画像形成装置が実行する処理は、次ジョブの予約を受け付け可能である旨をディスプレイに表示するステップ（Ｓ１０１０）と、ジョブの設定入力を受け付けるステップ（Ｓ１０１５）と、Ｓｔａｒｔボタンが押下された後に（ステップＳ１０２０にてＹＥＳ）、全原稿の読み込みの完了後（ステップＳ１０３０にてＹＥＳ）、印刷のための消耗品が十分に残っている場合に（Ｓ１０４０にてＹＥＳ）、金額を算出するステップ（Ｓ１０６０）と、課金用のバーコードを表示するステップ（Ｓ１０７０）と、課金後に（ステップＳ１０８０にてＹＥＳ）、次ジョブの予約を完了するステップ（Ｓ１０８５）と、消耗品が残っていない場合に（ステップＳ１０４０にてＮＯ）、ジョブを続行しない指示に基づき（ステップＳ１０５０にてＮＯ）、ジョブを破棄するステップ（Ｓ１０５５）とを含む。【選択図】図１０