NETWORK SERVICE PROVISION DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS AND OPERATION EXECUTION PROGRAM FOR THE PROVISION DEVICE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To configure a system wherein a network service provision device independently operates in a power-saving mode to a confirmation request of status information from a terminal device connected to a network to cope with a status information request while suppressing cost increase of an image forming apparatus to the minimum.

SOLUTION: When a status request is performed from another network apparatus connected to the network by detecting that an image forming apparatus body transfers to the power-saving mode that is a power wait state, this network service provision device responds to the network apparatus of a status request destination with information peculiar to the image forming apparatus as the status information.

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