Patent ID: 9191526
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: a communication portion executed by a processor, configured to enable transmission and reception of data among respective terminal devices of multiple users; a notification portion executed by the processor, configured to, when a job is submitted from a terminal device of one user among the terminal devices of the multiple users, display a first message associated with the job on another terminal device of another user among the terminal devices of the multiple users; a print request management table storage portion executed by the processor, configured to, when a print request is transmitted from the another terminal device of the another user in response to the first message, register and store the print request in a predetermined print request management table; and a response portion executed by the processor, configured to, when the print request is registered in the print request management table, display, on the terminal device of the one user, a second message requesting the one user who submitted the job to provide a response whether or not the one user intends to print a print object for the another user in response to the print request; wherein when the one user who submitted the job makes a response, from the terminal device, indicating an intention of the one user to print a print object for the another user, the image forming apparatus prints a print object for the one user who submitted the job and for the another user.