Image forming apparatus
AssigneeSharp Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorKUNIHISA CHIBA
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus includes a display that displays a first screen and a second screen to which a transition is able to be made from the first screen, a communicator that communicates with a server apparatus, an update manager that executes update processing to update a firmware program, and a display manager that does not display an update icon related to the update processing on the first screen in a first state where the server apparatus has not notified the update manager that an update program for updating the firmware program is available, and that displays the update icon on at least one of the first screen and the second screen in a second state where the server apparatus has notified the update manager that the update program is available.
Claims8
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a display that displays a first screen and a second screen to which a transition is able to be made from the first screen;
- a communicator that communicates with a server apparatus;
- an update manager that executes update processing to update a firmware program;
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- a display manager that does not display an update icon related to the update processing on the first screen in a first state where the server apparatus has not notified the update manager that an update program for updating the firmware program is available, and that displays the update icon on at least one of the first screen and the second screen in a second state where the server apparatus has notified the update manager that the update program is available.
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