Image forming apparatus with a touchpanel, image forming method, and non- transitory computer readable medium
An image forming apparatus includes a touchpanel, and a controller that pops up a screen, on the touchpanel automatically without an operation instruction from a user, information that identifies a job ready for execution and a button that is adapted to stop the execution of the job.
1. An image forming apparatus comprising:
a touchpanel; and
a controller configured to display application buttons on the touchpanel and to pop up, on the touchpanel automatically without an operation instruction from a user, a list of jobs ready for execution while the touchpanel displays the application buttons, each job displayed including extracted information that identifies a job ready for execution, the list of jobs including a plurality of buttons, each button of the plurality of buttons being paired with a job in the list of jobs and is adapted to stop the execution of the corresponding job associated therewith, wherein
each job is automatically popped up on the list of jobs, upon receipt of a job instruction without a further operation from the user.
2. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the button comprises a stop button.
3. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the button comprises a detail button that is adapted to display a detailed screen of the job ready for execution, and wherein the detailed screen is configured to display a stop button.
4. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the button that has been displayed is hidden if the execution of the job has been completed.
5. The image forming apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the button that has been displayed is hidden if the execution of the job has been completed.
6. The image forming apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the button that has been displayed is hidden if the execution of the job has been completed.
7. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information comprises a plurality of jobs ready for execution.
8. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the application buttons include a copy application button, a scan application button and a facsimile application button.
9. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
each of the jobs included in the list of jobs displayed while the touchpanel displays the application buttons has not yet started execution, and
each button of the plurality of buttons is paired with only one job in the list of jobs.
10. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein each of the jobs included in the list of jobs ready for execution is stoppable.
11. The image forming apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein a first job in the list of jobs is populated in the list of jobs in response to operation of a fax job button on the touchpanel.
12. An image forming method comprising:
receiving a request to start executing a job;
popping up, on a touchpanel automatically without an operation instruction from a user, a list of jobs ready for execution, each job displayed including extracted information that identifies the job ready for execution while the touchpanel displays application buttons, the list of jobs including a plurality of buttons, each button of the plurality of buttons being paired with a job in the list of jobs and is adapted to stop the execution of the corresponding job associated therewith; and
stopping the job ready for execution in response to a user's operation of the button, wherein
each job is automatically popped up on the list of jobs, upon receipt of a job instruction without a further operation from the user.
13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein the application buttons include a copy application button, a scan application button and a facsimile application button.
14. The image forming method according to claim 12 , wherein
each of the jobs included in the list of jobs displayed while the touchpanel displays the application buttons, has not yet started execution, and
each button of the plurality of buttons is paired with only one job in the list of jobs.
15. The image forming method according to claim 12 , wherein each of the jobs included in the list of jobs ready for execution is stoppable.
16. The image forming method according to claim 12 , wherein a first job in the list of jobs is populated in the list of jobs in response to operation of a fax job button on the touchpanel.
17. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for forming an image, the process comprising:
receiving a request to start executing a first job;
popping up, on a touchpanel automatically without an operation instruction from a user, extracted information that identifies the first job ready for execution together with a first button that is adapted to stop the execution of the first job while the touchpanel displays application buttons; and
stopping the first job ready for execution in response to a user's operation of the first button, wherein
when the first job begins to be executed with a second job ready for execution in a batch process, the second job is automatically extracted and popped up on the touchpanel with a second button that is adapted to stop the execution of the second job while the touchpanel displays the application buttons.
18. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein the application buttons include a copy application button, a scan application button and a facsimile application button.
19. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein
execution of the first job has not yet started at a time the first button is popped up,
the first button is adapted to stop the execution of only the first job,
execution of the second job has not yet started at a time the second button is popped up, and
the second button is adapted to stop the execution of only the second job.
20. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein
the first job is stoppable at a time the extracted information that identifies the first job and the first button are popped up, and
the second job is stoppable at a time the second button is popped up.
21. The non-transitory computer readable medium according to claim 17 , wherein the first job is populated in a list of jobs in response to operation of a fax job button on the touchpanel.