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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 06, 2007
Keisaku Matsumae, Osaka, JP;
Toshiyuki Nakade, Osaka, JP;
Seiji Onishi, Osaka, JP;
Ken Nishio, Osaka, JP;
Keisaku Matsumae, Osaka, JP;
Toshiyuki Nakade, Osaka, JP;
Seiji Onishi, Osaka, JP;
Ken Nishio, Osaka, JP;
Kyocera Mita Corporation, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus which includes: a job storage unit for storing a plurality of print jobs; an image forming unit for executing the print jobs stored in the job storage unit; and a job managing unit for managing an execution order of the print jobs performed by the image forming unit. The job managing unit includes: priority job managing portion which, during execution of a specific print job carried out according to an execution order set in advance, manages the image forming unit to suspend the specific print job and preferentially to execute another print job; and job continuation judging portion which, when completing a priority print job that is executed by the priority job managing portion, judges whether or not to continue execution of the specific print job based on a job execution state of the specific print job that is being executed when starting the priority print job.