Patent ID: 7428071

Claim:
An image forming system which includes a plurality of image forming devices each having a reading unit adapted to read an image on a manuscript, and connected through communication path, wherein one of an image forming device and at least one remote image forming device among 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 image forming device, each image forming device comprising: a display unit adapted to display a list of device names of the image forming device and the remote image forming device in a screen, the list being used for designating one of the image forming device and the remote image forming device as a destination device for formation of an image read by said reading unit; a selecting unit adapted to select the destination device according to a user's operation, on the screen in which the list is displayed by the display unit, for designating one of the image forming device and the remote image forming device; a transmitting unit adapted to transmit the image read by said reading unit through the communication path to the remote image forming device, in a case that the remote image forming device is selected as the destination device by said selecting unit; and an image forming unit adapted to form the image read by said reading unit, in a case that the image forming device is selected as the destination device by said selecting unit.