Patent ID: 7265863

Claim:
An image forming system which includes a plurality of image forming devices each having a reading unit that reads an image on a manuscript, and being connectable to one another through communication media, wherein one of an image forming device as a present image forming device and at least one other image forming device of said plurality of image forming devices can be selected as a destination device for formation of an image read by said reading unit of the present image forming device, said image forming devices each comprising: a display unit that displays a destination device designating screen for designating the destination device; a display control unit that controls said display unit in such a manner as to display a list of device names given respectively to said image forming devices on the destination device designating screen; a selecting unit that selects as the destination device one of said image forming devices corresponding to a device name designated according to an inputting operation on the destination device designating screen; a transmitting unit that, when the other image forming device is selected as the destination device by said selecting unit, transmits the image read by said reading unit through said communication media to the selected other image forming device; and an input unit that inputs the image read by said reading unit to the present image forming device, when the present image forming device is selected as the destination device by said selecting unit.