| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image formation device which can suppress a peak of power consumption in the whole society. <P>SOLUTION: The image formation device is equipped with an output instructing means 1 for instructing image outputting to a sheet; an output time setting means 2 for setting by when the outputting is to be carried out; a delay output judging means 3 for detecting whether a midnight power application time is held in between receiving of a job and the outputting, and whether a time zone where the power consumption is large is held in between, and for instructing to carry out the outputting altogether in the midnight power application time in the case where the midnight power application time is held in between, and instructing to carry out the outputting by avoiding the time zone of the large power consumption in the case where the time zone of the large power consumption is held in between; and an output means 4 for actually carrying out the outputting. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |
