Patent ID: 7747185

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a scanner which reads an image of a draft; a printer which prints the image on an image forming medium; a display unit which displays a setting screen of photocopy processing to print, on the image forming medium by the printer, the draft image read by the scanner; an operation unit which inputs setting information on the photocopy processing in a state in which the setting screen of the photocopy processing is displayed in the display unit; a display control unit which displays the setting screen on the display unit, the setting screen including: a setting information display area to display information indicating a plurality of setting particulars of the photocopy processing, the information including a draft graphical image indicating a whole draft, and a finished graphical image obtained by superimposing a graphical image indicating an area of the draft image onto a graphical image indicating the whole image forming medium, a button display area to display a plurality of icons to set the setting particulars of the photocopy processing, wherein one of the plurality of icons is a draft setting icon for designating an image direction of the draft selectable by the operation unit, and information indicating an image direction on the draft graphical image and information indicating an image direction on the finished graphical image in a case where an image direction of a draft is designated via the draft setting icon; and a photocopy setting unit to set the photocopy processing in accordance with the setting information input by the operation unit.