| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an image forming apparatus by which setting states of setting items can easily be grasped. <P>SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus includes hardware resources used for image formation processing, an application which performs the processing characteristic of user service for image formation processing, and control service which is interposed between the application and hardware resources and performs an acquisition request, management, and execution control for hardware resources needed in common by the application and image formation processing when the user service is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an HDD 103 and a nonvolatile memory 104 which store setting information, a mail reporting unit 131 which reports designated report contents to a designated reporting destination with electronic mail, and a setting managing unit 130 which changes the setting information stored on the HDD 103 etc., designates the changing of the setting information as reporting contents for the mail reporting unit 131, and designates a predetermined user as a reporting destination. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT |
