Patent ID: 8582161

Claim:
An image forming apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives a print job; a data saving unit that saves data therein; a drawing data generating unit that generates drawing data from print data of the print job; a log storage unit that stores a processing log for the print job; an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording medium based on the drawing data; and a data management unit that, when the print job received by the receiving unit is analyzed to be a time designated print job; causes the data generating unit to generate the drawing data; causes the data saving unit to save the drawing data in a manner correlated with print conditions such as a designated print time acquired from the print job and the drawing data; and manages the designated print time; that, when analyzed that printing is enabled at the designated print time, causes the image forming unit to perform image formation based on the drawing data at the designated print time and causes the log storage unit to store therein a processing log about processing of the image formation; and that, when printing is analyzed to be disabled at the designated print time, performs processing corresponding to a print disabled state preset for the time designated print job and causes the log storage unit to store therein a processing log about the processing corresponding to the print disabled state.