摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming device such as a printer or an MFP accepting a plurality of processing requests such as printing or copying and allocating an appropriate memory in accordance with the priorities of the jobs, and a program. <P>SOLUTION: The MFP 100 accepts a printing request from a personal computer 200a, allocates a minimum memory large enough to continue to a higher priority job from among the printing job and the copying job as the job for the copying request when receiving a copying request from the user of the MFP 100 during the performance of the printing job as a job for the request, and prevents a case where the higher priority job gents into a waiting condition to secure a memory. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |