Patent ID: 8180243

Claim:
An image forming system that is capable of forming images on sheets and performing post-processing on the sheets, comprising: a display unit; a storage unit that stores a plurality of maintenance items, and sub-maintenance items associated with respective ones of the maintenance items; a selecting unit that selects a maintenance item to be completed, out of the maintenance items; a determining unit that determines whether or not there is at least a corresponding sub-maintenance item that corresponds to the selected maintenance item and is required to be completed after and in response to completion of the selected maintenance item, by referring to said storage unit, based on the selected maintenance item; and a display control unit that is responsive to a determination of said determining unit that there is the corresponding sub-maintenance item, for causing said display unit to display a message prompting a user to execute the corresponding sub-maintenance item after completion of the selected maintenance item, wherein the maintenance items and the sub-maintenance items are maintenance actions.