Image forming apparatus for displaying a paper feed unit selection screen
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYoshiro Tachibana
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus having a plurality of paper feed units and a control method thereof that displays a paper selection screen for displaying a page of items of information of the paper feed units and selecting a paper to be used in print processing by selecting an item of the items of information in the page displayed on the paper selection screen. Items of information of the plurality of paper feed units are divided into a plurality of pages. The apparatus and method control the display unit to display a page among the plurality of pages in accordance with a status of the image forming apparatus in a case that the display unit displays the paper selection screen.
Claims9
An image forming apparatus comprising:
- a display unit configured to display a paper selection screen via which a user is operable to select a paper to be used for printing, wherein the paper selection screen includes a selection list that provides a user with information of a plurality of paper holding units of the image forming apparatus in a plurality of pages;
- a determining unit configured to determine whether or not an error related to a paper occurs in the image forming apparatus;
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- a specifying unit configured to specify a page of the plurality of pages including information of a paper holding unit related to the error in response to the determination unit having determined that the error related to a paper occurs in the image forming apparatus,
- wherein in a case that the page specified by the specifying unit is not a first page of the plurality of pages, the display unit displays the paper selection screen that initially displays a selection list including the page specified by the specifying unit other than the first page of the plurality of pages.
A method of controlling an image forming apparatus, comprising:
- displaying a paper selection screen via which a user is operable to select a paper to be used for printing, wherein the paper selection screen includes a selection list that provides a user with information of a plurality of paper holding units of the image forming apparatus in a plurality of pages;
- determining whether or not an error related to a paper occurs in the image forming apparatus;
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- specifying a page of the plurality of pages including information of a paper holding unit related to the error in response to the determination unit having determined that the error related to a paper occurs in the image forming apparatus,
- wherein in a case that the page specified in the specifying is not a first page of the plurality of pages, the paper selection screen that initially displays a selection list including the page specified in the specifying other than the first page of the plurality of pages is displayed in the displaying.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to implement as an image forming apparatus, the program comprising:
- a display module configured to display a paper selection screen via which a user is operable to select a paper to be used for printing, wherein the paper selection screen includes a selection list that provides a user with information of a plurality of paper holding units of the image forming apparatus in a plurality of pages
- a determining module configured to determine whether or not an error related to a paper occurs in the image forming apparatus;
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- a specifying module configured to specify a page of the plurality of pages including information of a paper holding unit related to the error in response to the determination unit having determined that the error related to a paper occurs in the image forming apparatus,
- wherein in a case that the page specified by the specifying unit is not a first page of the plurality of pages, the display unit displays the paper selection screen that initially displays a selection list including the page specified by the specifying unit other than the first page of the plurality of pages.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.