Patent ID: 7933028

Claim:
An image recording system, comprising: a first image recording apparatus; a second image recording apparatus attached to the first image recording apparatus, the first and second image recording apparatus being adapted to record images at least independently; an operational state monitoring portion that monitors the operational states of the first image recording apparatus and the second image recording apparatus; and a power supply controlling portion that automatically performs power supply control of both the first recording apparatus and the second image recording apparatus based on the operational states of the first image recording apparatus and the second image recording apparatus to shift one of the first and second image recording apparatuses to a power saving state while maintaining the other of the first and second image recording apparatuses in a recordable state, wherein the power supply controlling portion shifts one of the first and second image recording apparatuses, containing less remaining amount of consumables than the other of the first and second image recording apparatuses, to the power saving state and makes the other image recording apparatus wait in the recordable state, wherein the amount of the consumables remaining in the first and second image recording apparatuses can be counted, and wherein when the counted amount of the consumables remaining in the one of the first and second image recording apparatuses becomes less than a predetermined amount earlier than the other of the first and second image recording apparatuses, the power supply controlling portion shifts the one of the first and second image recording apparatuses to the power saving mode.