Image forming apparatus

Abstract

The present invention provides an image forming device, in the image forming device, a job managing section (81) acquires an operational status of a standby print job when a determination that a job having been accepted by a job accepting section (79) is a reserved low-key print setting job is made, as a result of a determination by a reserved setting determining section (75), and also allocates a printout for the reserved low-key print setting job to an available time slot based on the acquired operational status. As a result, the printout for the reserved low-key print setting job can be executed in an available time slot which is different from a time slot for the standby print job. Accordingly, mixing of printed sheets related to a plurality of print jobs can be prevented as much as possible, and a contribution to an improvement in convenience at the user-side can be made.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus equipped with a job management function, and in particular, to an image forming apparatus capable of avoiding output products of a plurality of print jobs from interlacing as much as possible, thereby significantly improving user convenience. Background technique [0002] Conventionally, there is known an image forming apparatus that has a job management function, that is, is connected to a plurality of information processing apparatuses (hereinafter, sometimes referred to as user terminals) owned by each user via a network, and receives printing from each user terminal. job, and executes the received print job as the management target in a predetermined order (for example, refer to Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-25137). [0003] An image forming apparatus applying the above prior art includes: a paper type information acquiring unit; a judging unit that judges whether a currently loaded t...

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Problems solved by technology

[0005] However, in the above-mentioned conventional job management technology, for example, when the image forming apparatus performs print output based on a plurality of instructions received via a network from each user terminal and outputs the output products of each user related to a plurality of print jobs, When outputting to a common output tray, it may cause the output of each user to be interleaved and mixed together

In addition, this time may cause a user to mistakenly take someone else's output

In this case, if the output taken away by others involves confidential content, it is likely to cause unexpected troubles that cannot be ignored

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