IMAGE FORMING SYSTEM

An image forming system has an image forming apparatus, a terminal device and a network. The terminal device is provided with a broadcast packet sending part that sends a broadcast packet, the image forming apparatus is provided with a response sending part that sends image forming apparatus specify...

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Main Authors OKAZAKI, Hirohito, ARAI, Taiki
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 19.12.2019
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Summary:An image forming system has an image forming apparatus, a terminal device and a network. The terminal device is provided with a broadcast packet sending part that sends a broadcast packet, the image forming apparatus is provided with a response sending part that sends image forming apparatus specifying information specifying itself in the network as a response to the broadcast packet, and an image forming part that forms an image. The response receiving part receives the response from the image forming apparatus, an apparatus specifying part specifies the image forming apparatus that sent the response based on the image forming apparatus specifying information contained in the response, a print job sending part that sends a print job to the image forming apparatus through the network based on the image forming apparatus specifying information, and the image forming part of the image forming apparatus forms the image on a medium according to the print job received from the terminal device.
Bibliography:Application Number: US201916389395