| 摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus capable of synchronizing an apparatus setting changed in the image forming apparatus with another image forming apparatus without requiring a separate administration server.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus comprises: an operation unit that receives an input of a setting value for each apparatus setting item; a setting information storage unit that stores setting information which is a set of apparatus setting items, setting values, and times of change of the setting values; a setting input information storage unit that stores setting input information which is information input from another apparatus to the image forming apparatus for updating the setting information of the image forming apparatus; a setting output information storage unit that stores setting output information as information for updating the setting information of the other apparatus by being output from the image forming apparatus to the other apparatus; a setting update unit that updates the setting information, setting input information, and setting output information; and a communication unit that receives the setting input information from the other apparatus and transmits the setting output information from the image forming apparatus.</p> |
