Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.

Norifumi Miyahara

Yoshihiro Osada

Taku Matsuo

Kunihiko Shimamoto

Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of appropriately setting and adjusting the order of printing jobs by presenting an internal priority. An instruction acquiring unit presents a job list in which the plurality of jobs is arranged in the printing order and acquires a change instruction of the printing order. The instruction acquiring unit also presents the internal priority to the job list and acquires a change instruction to change the internal priority. An internal priority setting unit sets, based on the change instruction, an internal priority that is different from set priority specified for each of the plurality of jobs. The internal priority setting unit changes the internal priority according to the change instruction to change the internal priority. An image forming unit that outputs each of the plurality of jobs in the printing order corresponding to the internal priority.

Image forming apparatus and image forming method capable of presenting and changing internal priority of printing order

Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of appropriately setting and adjusting the order of printing jobs by changing an internal priority. An instruction acquiring unit presents a job list in which a plurality of jobs is arranged in printing order, and it acquires a change instruction of the printing order. An internal priority setting unit sets, based on the change instruction acquired by the instruction acquiring unit, an internal priority that is different from set priority specified for each of the plurality of jobs. A list adjusting unit adjusts the printing order of an adding job according to the internal priority set by the internal priority setting unit and reflects adjustment in the job list. An image forming unit outputs each of the plurality of jobs in the printing order based on the job list adjusted by the list adjusting unit.

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Norifumi Miyahara