Patent ID: 8233815

Claim:
An image forming apparatus, comprising: a reservation section to reserve a plurality of jobs; an image forming section to execute an image forming process according to the jobs reserved by the reservation section; a control section to display a job scheduling screen in a display section, the job scheduling screen having reservation information of each of the jobs which are reserved displayed in a two dimensional chart in which a first axis indicates tray information or paper information and in which a second axis indicates the number of sheets of paper planned to be used or an estimated execution length of time; and a storage section to store tray-paper information relating to a paper of each of a plurality of trays, wherein the control section specifies a tray or a paper to be used in each of the jobs based on a setting condition of each of the jobs which are reserved and displays the reservation information for a value corresponding to the number of sheets of paper planned to be used or an estimated execution length of time of each of the jobs in the second axis at a position on the first axis corresponding to the tray or the paper which is specified, and the control section determines whether a job having a stopping cause which stops at least a part of the image forming process is reserved or not based on a setting condition and the tray-paper information of each of the jobs which are reserved, and the control section displays job information relating to the job having the stopping cause in the job scheduling screen when determining that the job having the stopping cause is reserved.