Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Takashi Ide

Hirohito Morioka

Kazuya Masuda

Mariko Arai

Yoshinori Nakahira

Yoshikazu Kondoh

Sohichi Yoshimura

Kenji Tani

Kouichi Eto

Takahiro Kawakami

Masaaki Kawakami

Kimiko Watanabe

Koji Tsukamoto

Toshinori Tsujii

Hiroki Eto

Takashi Sugitoh

An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a compound image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the compound image forming apparatus is changed.

Image forming apparatus

An object of the invention is to provide a display device of an image forming apparatus capable of displaying information that the user wants to obtain in a visually easy-to-recognize manner. In a complex image forming apparatus provided with: one of original reading means for reading image information from an original, image receiving means for receiving image information from a terminal connected to a network and a line image receiving means for receiving image information from a telephone line; image forming means for forming an image based on the image information obtained by the means; and a display portion for displaying the condition of the apparatus, a display condition control portion is provided that changes the display condition of the display portion to a visually easy-to-recognize condition when the condition of the complex image forming apparatus is changed.

An image forming apparatus having a plurality of discharge trays is provided, from which a user can readily obtain printed sheets he has requested. The user inputs a secret code at an operating and displaying section, which secret code the user specified at the terminal device at the time of print request (S ). When a coincidence between the inputted secret code and a secret code stored in secret code storage section is judged (S ), the target discharge tray information corresponding to the secret code is read out from a secret code storage section (memory) and displayed on the operating and displaying section (S ). Accordingly, the user can visually recognize information about a discharge tray on which the user's requested printed sheets are discharged.

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Osaka, Japan

Takashi Ide