IMAGE FORMING DEVICE, IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM, IMAGE FORMING METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an Image forming systems to use effectively practically a property connected to network and realize an efficient network printing environment at high speed. SOLUTION: A network environment has a first and second image forming devices having a predetermined capacity as a network printer connected to network 301 and printing information terminal for sending printing command and printing information to the aforementioned first or second image forming device; herein, the first image forming device attains information regarding printing capacity from the second image forming before storing it into a storing part 21. A virtual image forming device having a printing ability different from a printing ability of the first image forming device is obtained from the printing ability information of the second image forming device and printing ability information of the first image forming device. Then, the first image forming device operates to transfer a part of the printing information terminal to the second image forming device.