Patent ID: 8136049

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an operation panel including a display screen; a display section for displaying a main screen and a sub screen on the display screen, the sub screen configured to display multiple kinds of messages; and a setting section capable of setting a different display form according to each kind of the sub screen, wherein the display section displays the sub screen in the display form set by the setting section, in a mode of setting the display form of a message, the setting section generates a setting screen having a plurality of options enabling a user to select the display form of the message including display or nondisplay, and the setting section determines whether to permit or inhibit the message to be set to nondisplay according to the kind of message, and in a case that the message is inhibited to be set to nondisplay, the message is displayed according to the selected display form even if the message is set to nondisplay.