Patent ID: 8472051
Filing Date: 2013-06-25
Classification: G06F,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an operation portion, a display portion, and a display control portion for displaying a preview image of image data to be printed on the display portion, wherein an original bundle-based processing mode is selectable by the operation portion in the image forming apparatus, the original bundle-based processing mode is a mode for executing a plurality of subjobs each corresponding to a plurality of bundles of originals that are objects of original reading, to each of which print conditions is set, as one print job, when the preview image is displayed in the original bundle-based processing mode, the display control portion generates a thumbnail image by reducing image data of a top page of each subjob, arranges the generated thumbnail image corresponding to each subjob as the preview image to be displayed on the display portion, and displays each generated thumbnail image together on the display portion, and the display control portion displays each thumbnail image of the top page corresponding to each subjob so as to be selectable by the operation portion and, when one of the thumbnail images being displayed is selected by the operation portion, displays a top page, a next page, or a final page of a bundle of originals corresponding to the selected thumbnail images as the preview image on the display portion.