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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2018
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroshi Oya, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/34 (2006.01); G06F 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/00 (2006.01); G03G 21/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/34 (2013.01); G03G 21/02 (2013.01); H04N 1/00474 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a setting unit that sets a non-billing mode that is a mode of executing, without performing billing, a job that is set such that billing is performed for execution of the job, and a storage unit that stores a history of a job executed during a period in which the non-billing mode is set, wherein the stored history includes a cumulative number of pages obtained by printing performed by executing a job during a period in which the non billing mode is set.