IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, SYSTEM FOR ORDERING OPTIONAL DEVICE OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, METHOD FOR ORDERING OPTIONAL DEVICE OF IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS, PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To facilitate ordering an optional device excellent in environmental performance in an image forming apparatus.SOLUTION: The image forming apparatus 1 includes an image forming main device 3 which has an image forming unit 507 and to which the optional device can be connected. The image forming main device 3 includes a display device 503, an input device 504, and a communication device 505. A control section 501 executes a display control action acquiring optional information that indicates the optional devices and ecological information that indicates an emission amount of greenhouse gas of the optional device from a managing device 13 through the communication device 505 and displaying the optional information and the ecological information on the display device 503, and an ordering action ordering the optional device selected via the input device 504 out of the optional devices indicated in the optional information displayed on the display device 503 from the managing device 13 through the communication device 505.