Patent ID: 6873803

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a first image forming portion for forming an image on a normal image display medium; a second image forming portion for forming an image on a reversible image display medium; a detecting device for detecting a state of a predetermined item in the image forming apparatus; a device for outputting information about a state of the image forming apparatus in order to display at least part of the information about the state of the predetermined item in the image forming apparatus which is detected by the detecting device; a device for outputting information about a setting state of the image forming apparatus in order to display at least part of the information about the setting state of the image forming apparatus for image information; and a display device for displaying a predetermined part of the information generated from the device for outputting the information about the state of the image forming apparatus and the device for outputting the information about the setting state of the image forming apparatus, wherein information about the state of the predetermined item in the image forming apparatus and information about a setting state of the image forming apparatus are output to the second image forming portion to be formed on the reversible image display medium.