Image forming device
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorYuki SHIMOTSU
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Abstract
To provide an image forming device (20) able to perform an appropriate preview. A MFP (20) that generates an output image (27a) for at least one of transmission and printing (S102) and executes an output using an output image (27a) generated in S102. The MFP (20) generates a preview image (27b) for preview of the output image (27a), stores the preview image (27b) generated in S104 in a storage medium (30) outside of the MFP (20), and performs a preview using the preview image (27b) stored in the storage medium (30) in S109 (S111).
Claims8
An image forming device comprising:
- an output image generating part that generates an output image for output of at least one of transmission and printing;
- an image output part that executes the output using the output image generated by the output image generating part;
- a preview image generating part that generates a preview image for preview of the output image;
- a preview image management part that stores the preview image generated by the preview image generating part in a storage medium;
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- a preview performing part that executes the preview using the preview image stored in the storage medium,
- wherein the preview image management part stores the preview image in the storage medium outside of the image forming device.
The image forming device according to claim 4, wherein the preview image management part stores a new preview image in the storage medium inside of the image forming device, and moves the preview image stored in the storage medium inside of the image forming device to the storage medium outside of the image forming device so that the free capacity in the storage medium inside of the image forming device is larger than the size enough to allow the new preview image to be stored if the free capacity in the storage medium inside of the image forming device is less than the size enough to allow the new preview image to be stored.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.