Image forming apparatus and data communication system
An image forming apparatus includes a forming device forming an image on a sheet in accordance with print data, a communication device receiving first display data and second display data included in display data related to print data from a data management apparatus, and a display device displaying the display data. The display device separately displays the first display data and the second display data in separate screens.
1 . An image forming apparatus comprising:
a forming device forming an image on a sheet in accordance with print data;
a communication device communicating with a data management apparatus;
a display device provided on a housing accommodating the forming device;
an operation device receiving an operation of a user; and
a controller including a processor and causing the display device, when the processor executes a computer program:
to display, when receiving a selection instruction for the print data via the operation device, printing conditions related to the print data, including a number of sheets, a sheet size, and single-sided or double-sided printing, as indicated by first display data associated with the print data,
to display, when receiving an instruction to switch a display image via the operation device, a deadline related to the print data, as indicated by second display data associated with the print data, in place of the printing conditions indicated by the first display data, the deadline being a deadline by which the print data is printable or a deadline by which a response to the print data is requested, and
to download the print data from the data management apparatus via the communication device, when an instruction to execute downloading of the print data is received via the operation device.
2 . The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein the controller causes the display device to display a button for receiving the instruction to switch a display image, and to display the deadline indicated by the second display data in place of the printing conditions indicated by the first display data, when an operation of the button is received by the operation device.
3 . The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 ,
wherein, when the communication device receives printing condition limitation information related to the print data, the controller causes the forming device to form an image indicated by the print data on the sheet in accordance with the printing condition limitation information,
wherein the controller:
causes, when the printing condition limitation information indicates that the sheet size other than a particular size is limited, the forming device to form the image only on a sheet having the particular size, and
prohibits, when the printing condition limitation information indicates that an intensive printing, in which a plurality of pages are intensively printed onto a single sheet, is limited, the forming device from forming the image by using the intensive printing.
4 . The image forming apparatus according to claim 3 ,
wherein the printing condition limitation information is set to a folder storing the print data in the data management apparatus.
5 . An image forming apparatus comprising:
a forming device forming an image on a sheet in accordance with print data;
a communication device communicating with a data management apparatus;
a display device provided on a housing accommodating the forming device;
an operation device receiving an operation of a user; and
a controller including a processor and causing the display device, when the processor executes a computer program:
to display, when the communication device receives first display data associated with the print data and indicating printing conditions related to the print data and second display data associated with the print data and indicating a deadline related to the print data from the data management apparatus, a number of sheets, a sheet size, and a single-sided or double-sided printing as the printing conditions indicated by the first display data, and
to display, when receiving an instruction to switch a display image via the operation device, the deadline indicated by the second display data, in place of the printing conditions indicated by the first display data, the deadline being a deadline by which the print data is printable or a deadline by which a response to the print data is requested, and
to download the print data from the data management apparatus via the communication device, when an instruction to execute downloading of the print data is received via the operation device.