IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, ON-LINE OPERATION HELP SYSTEM, ON-LINE OPERATION HELP METHOD, PROGRAM AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PPROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus for reducing a time until solving operational obscurity by remarkably improving a response from requesting the display of help information to actually displaying the help information by previously downloading the help information before a help request operation. PSOLUTION: A series of key inputs are monitored in real time and when the series of key inputs exceed a preset value or when a key input matched with a preset pattern is detected, help information corresponding to user's operation is previously downloaded from a help server before user's help request information, so that on-line help can be performed. PCOPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI