摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable a connected image forming system to guide a slave machine that has outputted a part of image data, even at a location distant from a master machine to which the image data were first inputted. <P>SOLUTION: If the image data is inputted to the master machine 2A along with the inputted terminal specification information and if the master machine 2A is impossible to print out the image data alone, at least a part of the image data inputted into the master machine 2A is printed out by the slave machines 2B, 2C, 2D, or 2E as connected image data, and output destination information including at least slave machine information including slave machine specification information specifying the slave machines 2B, 2C, 2D, and 2E is outputted to the user terminal 6 specified by the terminal specification information that has been inputted with the image data. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO |