Job setting registration device, image processing apparatus, tangible computer-readable recording medium and method for registering job setting

A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program, wherein the program causes an image processing apparatus to function as:

• a job setting selection receiving unit to receive a selection instruction for selecting a job setting to be registered in a memory as a registered job setting, from among job settings of a plurality of jobs which are currently executed by the image processing apparatus, wherein the job setting to be registered in the memory is for a job which can be executed by the image processing apparatus;
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• a processor to register the selected job setting in the memory while the plurality of jobs are executed and in accordance with the selection instruction received by the job setting selection receiving unit,
• wherein when a second job is executed, the second job being different from the job having the job setting registered in the memory, the job setting registered in the memory is set to the second job by retrieving the registered job setting from the memory,
• wherein when the job is currently executed in a background in a state that the job setting selection receiving unit does not receive the selection instruction for selecting the job setting of the job which is currently executed, the processor registers the job setting of the job in the memory as a provisional registered job setting,
• in case that the job having the job setting registered in the memory as the provisional registered job setting is executed by retrieving the job setting from the memory before a predetermined time period elapses since the job setting is registered in the memory as the provisional registered job setting, the provisional registered job setting is registered in the memory as the registered job setting, and
• in case that the job having the job setting registered in the memory as the provisional registered job setting is not executed by retrieving the job setting from the memory before the predetermined time period elapses since the job setting is registered in the memory as the provisional registered job setting, the provisional registered job setting is deleted from the memory.

A method for registering a job setting, comprising:

• receiving a selection instruction for selecting a selected job setting to be registered as a registered job setting, from among job settings of a plurality of jobs which are currently executed by a predetermined image processing apparatus, wherein the job setting to be registered in the memory is for a first job among the plurality of jobs;
• storing the selected job setting in a registered job setting storing unit while the plurality of jobs are executed and in accordance with the received selection instruction,
• wherein when the first job is currently executed in a background in a state that the job setting selection receiving unit does not receive the selection instruction for selecting the job setting of the first job which is currently executed, the registered job setting storing unit stores a job setting of the first job as a provisional registered job setting,
• in case that the first job having the job setting stored as the provisional registered job setting is executed by retrieving the provisional registered job setting from the registered job setting storing unit before a predetermined time period elapses since storing the provisional registered job setting, the provisional registered job setting is stored as the registered job setting, and
• in case that the first job having the job setting stored as the provisional registered job setting is not executed by retrieving the provisional registered job setting from the registered job setting storing unit before the predetermined time period elapses since storing the provisional registered job setting, the provisional registered job setting is deleted from the registered job setting storing unit;
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• setting the registered job setting stored in the registered job setting storing unit to a second job, the second job being different from the first job having the job setting registered in the memory.