An image forming apparatus that prints and edits a document includes a user identification portion, a print management portion that records print management information indicating a user who performs abort operation of printing, an edit management portion that records edit management information, a determination portion that determines, based on the print management information, whether or not the user is a print suspended operator who has performed the abort operation previously, a page extraction portion that, when the print suspended operator performs reprinting operation for giving instructions to print the document that has been updated, extracts pages of the document which were printed successfully when printing of the document was suspended and have been updated thereafter, and a print controller that controls the image forming apparatus such that the image forming apparatus prints at least unprinted pages of the document and the pages extracted by the page extraction portion.

Claims

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16 granted claims

›1.independentAn image forming apparatus that includes a storage area for storing a document therein, and prints and edits the document stored in the storage area, …+7

›2.↳ 1The image forming apparatus according to claim 1,nwherein the print controller controls the image forming apparatus such that the image forming appara…d2

›3.↳ 1The image forming apparatus according to claim 1,nwherein the edit management portion records, as a part of the edit management information, whether t…d2

›4.↳ 1The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising an edit information display portion that displays information indicating the page…d2

›5.↳ 1The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a suspension information display portion that, if the user identified by the user…d2

›6.↳ 1The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a notification portion that, in response to deletion operation performed by a use…d2

›7.↳ 1The image forming apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a document management portion that, in response to deletion operation performed b…d2

›8.↳ 1The image forming apparatus according to claim 1,nwherein, when the abort operation is performed, the print management portion records an aborted time…d2

›9.independentA non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon a computer program used in a computer included in an image forming apparatus having …+7

›10.↳ 9The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9,nwherein the print controlling step controls the image forming apparatus such…d2

›11.↳ 9The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9,nwherein the edit management step records, as a part of the edit management i…d2

›12.↳ 9The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9,nwherein the computer program causes the computer to further perform an edit …d2

›13.↳ 9The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9,nwherein the computer program causes the computer to further perform a suspen…d2

›14.↳ 9The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9,nwherein the computer program causes the computer to further perform a notifi…d2

›15.↳ 9The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9,nwherein the computer program causes the computer to further perform a docume…d2

›16.↳ 9The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium according to claim 9,nwherein, when the abort operation is performed, the computer program causes …d2

Classifications

6 codes

IPC · International Patent Classification

Section G — Physics

G06K15/00
G06F3/12

Section H — Electricity

H04N1/46

USPC · US Patent Classification

358/1.16358/537358/1.15

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related publication	US 20110051158 A1	3 Mar 2011

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