Patent ID: 7512354

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 by the display unit; a setting unit which sets the photocopy processing in accordance with the setting information input by the operation unit; a state display unit which displays, in a specific display area in the setting screen, 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 on the basis of a printing start position, based an set contents set by the setting unit; an icon display unit which displays a draft setting key for designating an image direction of the draft selectable by the operation unit on the setting screen; an image direction display unit which displays information indicating an image direction on the draft graphical image with the information indicating an image direction on the finished graphical image in a case where an image direction of a draft is designated by the draft setting key; and a photocopy processing unit which reads the draft image by the scanner, and prints the image read by the scanner on the image forming medium by the printer, based on the set contents set by the setting unit.