| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a waiting time period is made long by a conflict with an already registered job even when a job expected to be urgently outputted is inputted later in an image forming apparatus that processes a plurality of print jobs by scheduling them beforehand. <P>SOLUTION: A user designates an attribute indicative of interruption permission to a job. In the case that a job requiring an earlier completion time is inputted during the processing of the job (S30), when a control section determines that the job under the processing has the attribute of interruption permission (S35) and can be completed by a time required by a user by virtue of the restarting after processing the interruption of the input job (S55), the control section firstly processes the interruption of the input job (60). In the case that there is no allowance time before the required completion time even while the job having interruption permission is processed, the job is firstly completed, and then the inputted job is processed. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |
