| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a network facsimile system, capable of allowing a client device to select facsimile equipment which can start transmission the quickest and request facsimile transmission at transmission in emergency and the like. SOLUTION: At emergency transmission, a client device 1 transmits a communicating situation request for inquiring a communicating situation to each facsimile equipment 3 and 4 connected with an LAN 2. Each facsimile equipment 3 and 4 transmits the presence or absence of communication, the remaining transmission data amounts, or a time required until the end of transmission as communicating situation information, in response to the communicating situation request. The client device 1 selects facsimile equipment, which can most quickly start the transmission from the communicating situation information received from each facsimile equipment 3 and 4, and requests facsimile transmission to the facsimile equipment. When it is simultaneous multi-address communication, plural facsimile equipment can be selected.
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