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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2010
Taketoshi Yamahata, Toyokawa, JP;
Tsumoru Matsuura, Toyohashi, JP;
Eiichi Yoshida, Toyokawa, JP;
Takatsugu Kuno, Toyokawa, JP;
Kenichi Komaba, Toyokawa, JP;
Taketoshi Yamahata, Toyokawa, JP;
Tsumoru Matsuura, Toyohashi, JP;
Eiichi Yoshida, Toyokawa, JP;
Takatsugu Kuno, Toyokawa, JP;
Kenichi Komaba, Toyokawa, JP;
KONICA MINOLTA BUSINESS TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image forming apparatus that prints and edits a document includes a user identification portion, a print management portion that records print management information indicating a user who performs abort operation of printing, an edit management portion that records edit management information, a determination portion that determines, based on the print management information, whether or not the user is a print suspended operator who has performed the abort operation previously, a page extraction portion that, when the print suspended operator performs reprinting operation for giving instructions to print the document that has been updated, extracts pages of the document which were printed successfully when printing of the document was suspended and have been updated thereafter, and a print controller that controls the image forming apparatus such that the image forming apparatus prints at least unprinted pages of the document and the pages extracted by the page extraction portion.