摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus having a new application management system. <P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus is equipped with a control means of controlling whether constituent equipment constituting the image forming apparatus is allowed or disallowed to enter power-saving mode. The control means controls whether the constituent equipment, constituting the image forming apparatus, is allowed or inhibited from entering the power-saving mode, based on the execution state of image formation processing and on the execution situation of application for the image forming apparatus. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |