IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM

• Main Author: KASAI MASAKI
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 12.08.2022
• Subjects: CALCULATING; CINEMATOGRAPHY; COMPUTING; CORRECTION OF TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS; COUNTING; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; 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 allow printing of repetitive documents for limited time without the need for an administrator to consciously change settings at timing.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus having a storage unit and an operation unit has: receiving means that receives instructions to register a document in the storage unit; registration means that registers the document according to the instructions in the storage unit; and display means that displays, on the operation unit, a home screen including a button for instructing execution of printing of the registered document. When the instructions received by the receiving means include information indicating an effective period for printing the document according to the instructions, the display means effectively displays the button for instructing execution of printing of the document according to the instructions in the printing effective period.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1 【課題】管理者がタイミングを意識して設定を変更することなく、期間限定で定型文書を印刷可能とすることである。【解決手段】記憶部および操作部を有する画像形成装置であって、前記記憶部に文書を登録するための指示を受け付ける受け付け手段と、前記指示にかかる前記文書を前記記憶部に登録する登録手段と、前記登録された文書の印刷実行を指示するためのボタンを含むホーム画面を前記操作部に表示する表示手段と、を有し、前記表示手段は、前記受け付け手段が受け付ける前記指示に、当該指示に係る文書の印刷有効期間を示す情報が含まれる場合、当該印刷有効期間において、当該指示に係る文書の印刷実行を指示するためのボタンを有効に表示する。【選択図】図１