Patent ID: 9542142
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. An image forming apparatus communicably connected to a plurality of terminal devices, and having a plurality of discharge destination trays, comprising: an inquiry portion configured to, upon receiving a predetermined print job, inquire a terminal device as a transmission source of the print job as to whether or not another terminal device exists near the terminal device; a determination portion configured to, when the result of the inquiry is that the other terminal device exists, determine whether or not the other terminal device is included in a transmission destination of a print job of a printed matter existing in a discharge destination, based on the present state of the discharge destination; and a discharge destination display portion configured to, when the result of the determination is that the other terminal device is included in the transmission destination of the print job of the printed matter existing in the discharge destination, display a discharge destination of a printed matter corresponding to the other terminal device, and user identification information of a user who owns the other terminal device, wherein the inquiry portion determines that another terminal device exists, upon receiving information of the other terminal device from the terminal device as the transmission source, within a given set time from when the inquiry portion makes the inquiry to the terminal device as the transmission source.