Patent ID: 7177035

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a power-on section which supplies power; a hard disk which stores image data; a printing section which prints image data stored in the hard disk; an instruction section which accepts an instruction to print using the printing section; a processing section which initializes the hard disk upon turn-on of the power-on section; a time measurement section which measures time required at least for the processing section to execute processing; a display section which displays that the apparatus is in a state in which the instruction section can accept the instruction to execute printing; a control section which controls, upon turn-on of the power-on section, report of the state in which the instruction section can accept the instruction to execute printing before completion of initialization of the hard disk; a first storage which stores a time period required for the processing section to finish the initialization; a reading section which reads image data from a document; a second storage which stores a time period required for the reading section to read image data and to access the hard disk in order to store the read image data, wherein the control section executes displaying at the end of a time period stored in the second storage subtracted from the time period stored in the first storage, and wherein the time period is stored in each of the first and second storages in advance of a time when the respective time period will occur.