Patent ID: 7576877

Claim:
An image forming system comprising an image forming apparatus and a terminal, which is capable of communicating with the image forming apparatus, for remotely operating the image forming apparatus, wherein the terminal comprises: a display controller which controls to display on a display section of the terminal a remote operation screen including a same content as a content of a main operation screen; an operation input section for inputting according to the remote operation screen; and a transmission section which transmits operation information including an operation position coordinate on the remote operation screen to the image forming apparatus, and wherein the image forming apparatus comprises: a display section to display the main operation screen; a storage section which receives the operation information including the operation position coordinate on the remote operation screen sent from the terminal, and which stores information of a series of time-series operations conducted by an operator on the terminal as operation procedure information; and a controller which reads out and reproduces the operation procedure information, and which conducts various settings of the image forming apparatus based on the reproduced series of time-series operations.