摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To improve the operability of network information equipment by providing an environment for remotely operating other equipment connected on a network. SOLUTION: Host computers 11 and 12, printers 13 and 14 and digital copy machines 15 and 16 have functions for sending or acquiring a device ID for specifying the function of a device together with a network ID assigned to a local area network 17, transforming an operating instruction into a readable format for operation source equipment and operation destination equipment, sending or acquiring the operating instruction, substituting an operating instruction, that the operation source equipment does not have, when there is such an operating instruction in the operating instructions of the operation destination equipment and sending image information to the operation destination equipment.
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