Patent ID: 7554679
Filing Date: 2009-06-30
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: a job storage unit which stores plural jobs being executed and on standby in association with languages used therefor; an extracting unit which extracts languages associated with the jobs stored in the job storage unit; a display unit which displays job state information indicating an execution state of each of the jobs; a storage unit which stores the job state information in plural languages; and a display control unit which reads from the storage unit the job state information in one or plural languages matching the languages extracted by the extracting unit, and displays on the display unit the read job state information in the one or plural languages, wherein the display control unit simultaneously displays job state information for a single job in both (1) a first language paired with the single job in the job storage unit and (2) in at least one additional second language paired with another job in the job storage unit, the first and at least one additional languages being different.