Patent ID: 8619301

Claim:
An image forming apparatus which forms an image on a recording medium to output the image based on a print job, the image forming apparatus comprising: a control section which controls an output operation performed by the image forming apparatus; and an informing section; wherein the control section causes the informing section to inform output content confirmation information for confirming one or more contents each being of an image output operation corresponding to the print job and one or more contents each being of a predetermined output operation set in the image forming apparatus, based on the print job and a setting content of the predetermined output operation set in the image forming apparatus, the setting content being set independently of a setting of the image output operation corresponding to the print job; wherein the control section produces information in which one or more scheduled output contents each relating to the image output operation corresponding to the print job and one or more scheduled output contents each relating to the predetermined output operation set in the image forming apparatus are arrayed in an output order in each predetermined output unit, as the output content confirmation information, based on an information production start instruction which is input based on a predetermined operation of an operation section by a user, and the control section causes the informing section to inform the produced output content confirmation information.