Konica Minolta Business Technologies, Inc.

Konica Minolta, Inc.

Tetsuya Akahane

Tadashi Suzue

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, including: a first storing device; a second storing device in which consumed power is low as compared with the first storing device; and a control unit configured to start up the image forming apparatus by a program stored in the second storing device, and to execute the job by using one of the storing devices as a storing area for the image data, wherein the control unit controls the image forming apparatus in a first operation mode in which the image forming apparatus is started up without supplying electric power to the first storing device, and in which when a predetermined condition is satisfied, the job is executed by using the second storing device and when the predetermined condition is not satisfied, the job is executed by supplying the electric power to the first storing device and using the first storing device.

Image forming apparatus which uses both of HDDs and an SDD, and which saves the power consumption

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus comprising: a control section; and a display section connected to a system bus, wherein the display section comprises: a display device; a screen data storage section to temporarily store screen data of an operation screen; and a display control section to display the operation screen based on the screen data, and wherein the control section comprises: a storage section to store the screen data of the operation screen; and a controller to transfer the screen data of the operation screen pertaining to a function provided to the image forming apparatus to the screen data storage section through the system bus after a power source is turned on and before the function becomes operable; and to control the display control section to display the operation screen based on the screen data stored in the screen data storage section, after the function becomes operable.

Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and screen display method, all capable of displaying an operation screen without damaging any intrinsic performance of the image forming apparatus

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, comprising: an image processing sectionto perform image processing for printing for CMYK image data which is obtained by a color conversion for the printing; a thumbnail image generating sectionto generate thumbnail image data by using the CMYK image data; a memoryto store the CMYK image data; and a display sectionto display a thumbnail image based on the thumbnail image data, wherein the thumbnail image generating sectionperforms reducing processing to reduce the CMYK image data, and conversion processing to convert the reduced CMYK image data to image data for displaying, so as to generate the thumbnail image data, in parallel with the image processing performed by the image processing section

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