| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent, when setting setting information to a plurality of information processing apparatuses, convergence of setting information acquisition requests from the plurality of information processing apparatuses to an apparatus that provides the setting information.SOLUTION: An image forming apparatus 12 (child image forming apparatus) acquires preference information from an image forming apparatus 11 (parent image forming apparatus) (steps S1 and S2), and sets the preference information to a setting information storage device 110 (step S3). The image forming apparatus 12 transmits the preference information acquired from the image forming apparatus 11 to an image forming apparatus 14 (grandchild image forming apparatus) (steps S4 and S5). The image forming apparatus 14 sets the received preference information to itself (step S6). |
