Patent ID: 7437092

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: a main body; a sheet receiving tray being configured to receive paper outputted after an image forming process; an operating mode switching control system being configured to switch the image forming device to a power saving mode from a normal mode upon continuation of a non-processing period for more than a predetermined amount of time in the normal mode allowing the image forming process, the power consumption being reduced in the power saving mode; a control panel having a liquid crystal display unit and light sources being backlights for the liquid crystal display unit, the liquid crystal display unit having a mode notification device being configured to make a display mode of the light sources of the liquid crystal display unit differ according to the normal mode and the power saving mode, the mode notification device consisting of a first light source being configured to be used in the normal mode, and a second light source being configured to be used in the power saving mode and being configured to consume less power than the first light source, the first light source and the second light source each being an LED, the first and second light sources being backlights for the liquid crystal display unit and having display colors different from one another; and an illumination drive device switching between and driving the illumination of each light source according to the normal mode and the power saving mode.