Through the storage null specified communication mediums which data processing manner and the computer of the image formation device and the image formation device read out and

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To freely construct an image processing environment in which image data efficiently and automatically undergoes alternative processing by utilizing another image forming device on a network even when shifted to a state in which image formation is impossible when once received image data is subjected to image processing according to image processing request data that is received together. SOLUTION: The resource information of another communicable image forming device 103 is acquired and managed, and even if an image forming device 102 is shifted to a state where it can not perform image formation while the device 102 receives image data, etc., from a host computer 101 and performs image formation, the received image data, etc., are alternately transferred to the other image formation device 103 which can normally perform image formation.