MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE SYSTEM HAVING MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE AND MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT UNIT, MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE, AND MULTI-FUNCTION DEVICE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT UNIT

摘要

A multi-function device system is provided, which includes a multi-function device and a multi-function device communications management unit, in which the use efficiency of the memory provided in a facsimile unit is enhanced and data printed in divided form can be saved as one-page data in the multi-function device communications management unit. More precisely, the multi-function device system includes a multi-function device and a multi-function device communications management unit, wherein the multi-function device is connected to a network and has a facsimile function and the multi-function device communications management unit is connected to the same network and saves the backup data of document data that the multi-function device has received by facsimile. In the multi-function device, the document data received by facsimile as one-page data is divided into a plurality of pages and printed when the documents data is too large to print on one page. The multi-function device communications management unit is controlled to transmit the backup data of the plurality of pages to the multi-function device communications management unit and to save the backup data of a plurality of pages transmitted from the multi-function device, as one-page backup data.