Patent ID: 9323196
Filing Date: 2016-04-26
CPC Classification: G03G,G06F

Claim Text:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: an input unit through which printing data of each of pages included in a printing job is input; a control unit that determines, on the basis of print setting information of the printing data included in the printing job, (i) a page which is unprintable without changing attributes of the printing data originally inputted in the same apparatus because at least one of toner and paper required for printing is deficient, and (ii) a page which is printable without changing attributes of the printing data, among the pages included in the printing job; a printing unit that selectively prints a page excluding the unprintable page determined by the control unit, among the pages included in the printing job; a storage device that stores the printing data including the unprintable page determined by the control unit but not including the printable page determined by the control unit, among the printing data of the pages included in the printing job as pending job data; a communication unit for connection to a network; a reception unit receiving an instruction to carry out printing based on the pending job data; and a notification unit having a display unit, wherein when the pending job data is stored in the storage device, the notification unit displays a reception screen for receiving an instruction whether or not to cause the same apparatus to carry out the printing based on the pending job data by changing the attributes of the printing data originally inputted; when the reception unit receives the instruction to carry out the printing based on the pending job data according to the reception screen, the printing unit carries out the printing based on the printing data obtained by converting an attribute of the pending job data into an attribute by which the printing is allowed in the same apparatus; the communication unit obtains information about toner and paper housed in a different apparatus that excludes the same apparatus and is connected to the network; when the reception unit receives the instruction not to cause the same apparatus to carry out the printing based on the pending job data according to the reception screen, the control unit determines whether the different apparatus in which the printing based on the pending job data can be carried out without changing the attributes of the printing data originally inputted is present or not, based on the information about toner and paper and the print setting information; and when the control unit determines that the different apparatus in which the printing based on the pending job data can be carried out is present, the notification unit displays a notification screen notifying that the different apparatus in which the printing based on the pending job data is allowed to be carried out is present, together with an identifier of the different apparatus, an installation site of the different apparatus, and the information about toner and paper.