Patent ID: 7630093

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: an image display member on which an image is displayed; and an image forming apparatus, wherein: the image display member includes: a first parameter storage unit that stores a first parameter indicating a way to form the displayed image and a formation history of the displayed image and outputs the stored first parameter to an external unit; the image forming apparatus includes: an image reading unit for reading the displayed image; a parameter reading unit for reading the output first parameter; and an image forming unit for forming the read image on the basis of the read first parameter on a recording medium; and a parameter writing unit for writing the read first parameter and a second parameter containing a history updated in response to the image formation on the recording medium into a second parameter storage unit included in the recording medium, wherein the history contained in the second parameter includes information indicating a previous printing of the image formed on the recording medium in an n-up print mode and information indicating the value of n, where n is a positive integer.