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US 9,756,206 B2Granted
Image forming apparatus
AssigneeKYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
InventorHiroki Arakawa
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Abstract
An image forming apparatus recognizes a requesting user who has requested execution of a printing job stored in a memory portion, and in a case where a distance between a mobile terminal owned by the requesting user and the image forming apparatus has become not more than a first threshold value, the image forming apparatus performs control so that interrupt printing is performed in which the printing job of the requesting user is started, and so that another printing job is not resumed until a prescribed time length has elapsed after completion of the printing job of the requesting user.
Claims6
An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printing portion that executes a printing job;
- a paper ejection tray on which printed matter obtained by executing a printing job is ejected;
- a memory portion in which a printing job that is withheld from being executed is stored;
- a communication interface for performing communication with a mobile terminal owned by a user;
- and
- a control portion comprising a CPU and a memory, that recognizes a requesting user who has requested execution of the printing job stored in the memory portion and performs communication with the mobile terminal owned by the requesting user via the communication interface so as to detect a distance between the mobile terminal owned by the requesting user and the image forming apparatus,
- wherein
- in a case where, in a state communicable with the mobile terminal, the distance between the mobile terminal owned by the requesting user and the image forming apparatus has become not more than a first threshold value set based on information on the printing job of the requesting user while a printing job other than the printing job of the requesting user stored in the memory portion is being executed, the control portion performs control so that the printing portion interrupts execution of the other printing job and starts the printing job of the requesting user, and so that the other printing job is not resumed until a prescribed time length has elapsed after completion of the printing job of the requesting user.
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An image forming apparatus, comprising:
- a printing portion that executes a printing job;
- a paper ejection tray on which printed matter obtained by executing a printing job is ejected;
- a memory portion in which a printing job that is withheld from being executed is stored;
- a communication interface for performing communication with a mobile terminal owned by a user;
- and
- a control portion comprising a CPU and a memory, that recognizes a requesting user who has requested execution of the printing job stored in the memory portion and performs communication with the mobile terminal owned by the requesting user via the communication interface so as to detect a distance between the mobile terminal owned by the requesting user and the image forming apparatus,
- wherein
- in a case where the distance between the mobile terminal owned by the requesting user and the image forming apparatus has become not more than a first threshold value set based on a number of sheets to be printed by the printing job of the requesting user while a printing job other than the printing job of the requesting user stored in the memory portion is being executed, the control portion performs control so that the printing portion executes interrupt printing in which execution of the other printing job is interrupted to start the printing job of the requesting user, and so that the other printing job is not resumed until a prescribed time length has elapsed after completion of the printing job of the requesting user, and
- the control portion checks the number of sheets to be printed by the printing job of the requesting user and sets the first threshold value to be larger as the checked number of sheets to be printed increases.
6 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.