Image forming apparatus
AssigneesKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Tec Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKazushige MORIHARA
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Abstract
The present invention provides a technique that can prevent an increase in power consumption due to intermittent execution of print jobs with low execution priorities and contribute to a reduction in CO2 emission. The technique is to discriminate content of a received print job, cause a storage medium to temporarily store, in a predetermined storage area, a print job discriminated as having first content with a low execution priority and cause an image forming apparatus to execute, together with the print job having the first content stored in the predetermined storage area, a print job discriminated by the job discriminating unit as having second content that should be more preferentially executed than the first content.
Claims16
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a job receiving unit configured to receive a print job;
- a job discriminating unit configured to discriminate content of the print job received by the job receiving unit;
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- a job managing unit configured to cause a storage medium to temporarily store, in a predetermined storage area, a print job discriminated by the job discriminating unit as having first content with a low execution priority and cause the image forming apparatus to execute, together with the print job having the first content stored in the predetermined storage area, a print job discriminated by the job discriminating unit as having second content that should be more preferentially executed than the first content.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a job receiving unit configured to receive a print job;
- a job discriminating unit configured to discriminate content of the print job received by the job receiving unit;
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- a job managing unit configured to cause a storage medium to temporarily store, in a predetermined storage area, a print job discriminated by the job discriminating unit as having first content with a low execution priority and cause, if a sum of predetermined parameters concerning all print jobs stored in the predetermined storage area exceeds a predetermined value, the image forming apparatus to execute all the print jobs stored in the predetermined storage area.
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a job receiving unit configured to receive a print job;
- a job storing unit configured to cause a storage medium to store the print job received by the job receiving unit in a predetermined storage area;
- a job discriminating unit configured to discriminate content of the print job stored in the predetermined storage area by the job storing unit;
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- a job managing unit configured to cause, if a print job discriminated by the job discriminating unit as having second content that should be more preferentially executed than first content having a low execution priority is present among print jobs stored in the predetermined storage area, the image forming apparatus to execute, together with the print job having the second content, a print job having the first content stored in the predetermined storage area.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.