| 摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enhance image formation efficiency in a network image formation system in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses are connected with one another via a network. <P>SOLUTION: In the network image formation system in which a plurality of the image forming apparatuses 2 are connected with one another via the network, the image forming apparatus 2 is provided with an image input means 21 for inputting an image, an image storage means 23 for storing the image, an image output means 25 for outputting the image, a transmission means 24 for transmitting image printing information to an optional image forming apparatus, an operation display means 40, and a control means 31 for controlling the whole, the control means 31 has functions capable of successively grasping states of image forming operations of other image forming apparatuses and performs control for displaying the fact that other unused image forming apparatuses, if any, exist when a prescribed image forming apparatus currently performing the image forming operation performs a new image forming operation on the operation display means 40, and at the same time for performing a reading operation by the image forming apparatus by input from the operation display means 40 and for transferring the read image printing information to other unused image forming apparatuses. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2003,JPO |
