Patent ID: 8320787
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G03G

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus comprising: plural sheet supplying sections which accommodate a recording sheet and feed out the recording sheet; an image forming section which forms an image on the recording sheet, fed out from a sheet supplying section, based on a printing job; a memory section which stores information of the printing job, including at least information of the recording sheet to be used; and a control section which determines at least a sheet supplying section to be used, based on the information of the recording sheet, included in the printing job stored in the memory section, and displays an event using a time axis provided on one of a vertical axis or a horizontal axis on a display section, wherein the event is generated by a schedule for using the sheet supplying section determined above, and is generated when the sheet supplying section to be used is switched to another sheet-supplying section, or the event is generated at a predetermined time cycle.