Patent ID: 8456675

Claim:
A management device comprising: a receiving unit that receives a request for image forming process of an image forming device and information regarding the image forming device; a judgment unit that, if the image forming device is judged to be incapable of limiting a number of image forming processes to be performed within a first upper limit value based on the information received by the receiving unit, judges whether or not a number of image forming processes which have been performed is within the first upper limit value; a permission unit that permits the image forming device to perform the requested image forming processes, if the judgment unit judges that the number of image forming process which have been performed is within the first upper limit value; and a change unit that sets, if the number of image forming process which have been performed exceeds the first upper limit value through the requested and permitted image forming processes being performed, a second upper limit value which is used for limiting image forming processes at the next time based on an excess amount from the first upper limit value.