Patent ID: 8913261

Claim:
An image forming system comprising: an image forming apparatus; and a set top box, wherein the image forming apparatus includes: a printing device that prints on a recording medium; a reading device that reads an image from an original document; an advertisement-printed medium holding unit that holds an advertisement-printed medium; an advertisement-printable medium holding unit that holds an advertisement-printable medium; a first advertisement storage unit that stores an advertisement; and a copy control unit that: controls copying, wherein controlling copying enables the printing device to print the image on the recording medium; and performs, in response to an instruction for advertisement-attached copying, one of the following: i) advertisement-printable medium copying, wherein the advertisement is printed on the advertisement-printable medium, and ii) advertisement-printed medium copying, wherein the advertisement-printed medium is used if the instructions satisfy a specific condition for printing on a plurality of recording media, wherein the set top box includes: a communication unit that receives a box ID and an advertisement data from a server; a data control unit that generates a group of advertisements based on the advertisement data and stores the group of advertisements in an advertisement data folder in association with the received box ID; and a second advertisement storage unit that includes the advertisement data folder, wherein the data control unit writes the group of advertisements, in association with the box ID of the advertisement that has been printed in the advertisement-printable medium copying, to the first advertisement storage unit from the second advertisement storage unit.