IMAGE PROCESSOR, CONSUMABLE REPLENISHMENT NOTIFYING METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To efficiently notify a user of the fact that consumables are replenished to an image processor.

SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 1 for executing the job of processing relating to images on the basis of commands supplied from a user comprises: a user job history data base DB2 for storing execution condition information indicating the execution condition of the job and user identification information identifying a user who is a command origin in correspondence for each job; an apparatus constitution detection part 103 for detecting the replenishment of the consumables of the image forming apparatus 1 itself; a notifying object discrimination part 104 for discriminating the user who is the command origin of the job executed when the residual amount of the consumables is less than a prescribed amount on the basis of the execution condition information and the user identification information stored in the user job history data base DB2; and a notifying part 105 for new functions or the like, for notifying the discriminated user that replenishment is executed.

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