Patent ID: 8885195

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: a plurality of image forming devices; a determining unit that determines, before a user instructs printing of a print job, two or more image forming devices in which image data corresponding to user information is to be stored among a plurality of image forming devices; a first storage unit that stores the user information and device information indicating the two or more image forming devices determined by the determining unit in a correlated manner; a transmitting device in which the user information is preset; a transmitting unit that is provided in the transmitting device and transmits image data corresponding to the preset user information to one of two or more image forming devices determined by the determining unit with respect to the user information; a second storage unit that is provided in each of the two or more image forming devices and stores the image data transmitted by the transmitting unit; a receiving unit that is provided in each of the plurality of image forming devices and receives an input of the user information; a first acquiring unit that is provided in each of the plurality of image forming devices and acquires image data corresponding to the input user information from at least one of the two or more image forming devices correlated with the input user information indicated by the device information stored in the first storage unit; and an image forming unit that is provided in each of the plurality of image forming devices and forms an image corresponding to the image data acquired by the first acquiring unit, wherein the determining unit determines an image forming device, based on a facsimile function being present in the image forming device and not present among the two or more image forming devices, and the determining unit includes the image forming device in the two or more image forming devices determined by the determining unit as corresponding to the user information of the user.