Patent ID: 8228526

Claim:
An image processing apparatus, comprising: a job inputting section to input an outputting job based on which an image is to be outputted, therefrom, while correlating user identification information of a user, who instruct an operation for implementing the outputting job, and the outputting job with each other; a job implementation order controlling section to control an implementation order of outputting jobs, each of which is the outputting job inputted from the job inputting section, based on priority degrees of the outputting jobs; a job implementing section to sequentially implement the outputting jobs one by one, according to the implementation order of the outputting jobs; a user-identification information inputting section to input the user identification information, therefrom; and a control section to conduct an updating operation for heightening a priority degree of a specific outputting job, which is currently in a standby state for waiting its turn to be commenced by the job implementing section, based on an inputting status of the user identification information inputted from the user-identification information inputting section and correlated with the specific outputting job, wherein the inputting status represents at least one of a number of times the user identification information have been inputted from the user-identification information inputting section, and a time period, during which the user identification information has been inputted at the user-identification information inputting section, and wherein the inputting status represents, at least, the number of times the user identification information have been inputted from the user-identification information inputting section, and wherein, when the number of times the user identification information have been inputted from the user-identification information inputting section exceeds a predetermined threshold value, the control section conducts the updating operation for heightening the priority degree of the specific outputting job, which is currently in the standby state for waiting its turn.