Image forming apparatus using multiple removable cartridges, information processing apparatus used together with this apparatus, and methods of controlling these apparatus

摘要

Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that uses a plurality of removable cartridges and that is so adapted that a desired cartridge can be exchanged with ease. The apparatus includes a cartridge management unit which, in accordance with a command supplied from a move-cartridge designating unit of a host computer, causes movement of cartridges possessed by an image forming unit.