To attain the reduction of a cost by excluding a hardware equivalent to a controller from a copying machine and installing a controller software in a computer, also, to simplify a control software delivery route, and also, to attain the simplification of individual correspondence.
Image data inputted from one of image data input devices 5 connected to a network 90 is obtained by one of controllers 700, then, an image processing of the obtained image data is performed based on an image forming mode set by an operation part unit 4 which is recognized as the same device group as the image data input device, and a series of instruction codes for an image forming operation is communicated to the image forming apparatus 6 recognized as the same device group as the image data input device 5, and then, the processed image data is transmitted to the image forming apparatus 6, and an operation of forming the image on a sheet material is controlled.
IKEGAMI HIDEYUKI
MAEDA YUICHIRO
NAGAYA TAKASHI
