摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a highly reliable malfunction diagnosis device precisely determining a malfunction point of an image forming apparatus. <P>SOLUTION: This malfunction diagnosis device 1 diagnoses a malfunction point of a collected image forming apparatus. The diagnosis device 1 comprises: an image data input section 10 for receiving output image data from the collected image forming apparatus; a data management section 23 for storing relational data designating a relationship between image data and a component characteristic; and a data processing section 22. The data processing section 22 compares the output image data input to the image data input section 10 with the relational data stored in the data management section 23 to carry out the analyzing so that the malfunction point of the image forming apparatus is determined. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI |