Patent ID: 8675223

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: a storage unit that stores a program other than a printer driver to use the device itself as image data of a virtual recording medium; and a controller including: a detecting unit that detects a connection of another device using the device itself; a transmitting unit that transmits, if the connection is detected by the detecting unit, a discrimination information of the device itself, the discriminating information including a device identifier and an image data identifier, to another device using the device itself; the image data identifier identifying the image data of the virtual recording medium to the other device; and a receiving unit that receives a response information based on the discriminating information; wherein another device using the device itself is available to access the image data of the virtual recording medium on the basis of the response information, the image data of the virtual recording medium is stored as a disk image file, the disk image file constituting a single file and including complete contents and structure of a file system, and a type of the disk image file is an ISO system or a standard ISO system.