Image forming device, image forming system and computer readable medium for installing related software to another device

摘要

An image forming device includes a storage unit that stores a program to use the device itself as image data of a virtual recording medium; and a controller including: a detecting unit that detects connection of another device using the device itself; a transmitting unit that transmits, if the connection is detected by the detecting unit, discriminates an information of the device itself to another device using the device itself; a receiving unit that receives a response information based on the discriminating information; and wherein another device using the device itself is available to access the image data of the virtual recording medium on the basis of the response information.