Image forming apparatus, and method for controlling display screens thereof
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorAkari Yasukawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus is provided and controls a display device to cause a display of an object associated with specific user information in a user selection screen to notify information relating to the number of pieces of specific print data associated with the specific user information.
Claims25
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a display;
- at least one memory;
- and
- at least one processor that executes instructions stored in the memory to configure the image forming apparatus to,
- acquire user information associated with an object selected in a user selection screen in which a plurality of objects associated with user information is arranged,
- display, on the display, a printing screen presenting a list of held print jobs that can be printed according to an instruction and is associated with the acquired user information, and
- control the image forming apparatus such that each object arranged in the user selection screen is displayed in a manner that facilitates recognizing a number of print jobs that a user corresponding to the object has set to be held, and such that in a case where the objects arranged in the user selection screen include an object of a non-holding user who has not set any print job to be held, the object of the non-holding user is displayed in a manner that facilitates recognizing that the non-holding user has not set any print job to be held.
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus that comprises a display, at least one memory, and at least one processor that executes instructions stored in the memory to configure the image forming apparatus, the method comprising,
- acquiring user information associated with an object selected in a user selection screen in which a plurality of objects associated with user information is arranged,
- displaying, on the display, a printing screen presenting a list of held print job that can be printed according to an instruction and is associated with the acquired user information, and
- controlling the image forming apparatus such that each object arranged in the user selection screen is displayed in a manner that facilitates recognizing a number of print jobs that a user corresponding to the object has set to be held, and such that in a case where the objects arranged in the user selection screen include an object of a non-holding user who has not set any print job to be held, the object of the non-holding user is displayed in a manner that facilitates recognizing that the non-holding user has not set any print job to be held.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium holding a program for a method of controlling an image forming apparatus that comprises a display, at least one memory, and at least one processor that executes instructions stored in the memory to configure the image forming apparatus, the method comprising,
- acquiring user information associated with an object selected in a user selection screen in which a plurality of objects associated with user information is arranged,
- displaying, on the display, a printing screen presenting a list of held print job that can be printed according to an instruction and is associated with the acquired user information, and
- controlling the image forming apparatus such that each object arranged in the user selection screen is displayed in a manner that facilitates recognizing a number of print jobs that a user corresponding to the object has set to be held, and such that in a case where the objects arranged in the user selection screen include an object of a non-holding user who has not set any print job to be held, the object of the non-holding user is displayed in a manner that facilitates recognizing that the non-holding user has not set any print job to be held.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.