| 摘要 |
An electrophotographic image forming apparatus to which a process cartridge is detachably mountable for forming an image onto a recording medium includes a recognizing device for recognizing identifying information peculiar to the process cartridge, a detector for detecting use status information when the process cartridge is used in the image forming apparatus, a rewritable memory for storing the identifying information recognized by the recognizing device and the use status information of the process cartridge detected by the detector, and an information communicating device for giving and receiving the use status information of the process cartridge stored in another electrophotographic image forming apparatus to which the process cartridge is detachably mountable to and from another electrophotographic image forming apparatus.
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