A CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A DIGITAL COPYING MACHINE, A FACSIMILE MACHINE AND OTHER PROCESSING APPARATUS

Featured is a control system including a processing apparatus, such as a digital copying or facsimile machine and a terminal apparatus. The processing apparatus creates a control command on the basis of a control program previously stored in the processing apparatus and executes processing in accordance with the control command. The control program stored in the apparatus is transmitted to the terminal apparatus by means of an electromagnetic transmitter/receiver, such as an IRPCM transmitting part of an IR emit receiver part. The terminal apparatus executes the control program therein, creates a control command for the processing apparatus and transmits the control command to the processing apparatus via the transmitter/receiver. Additionally, the processing apparatus transmits internal information within the processing apparatus to the terminal apparatus through the transmitter/receiver, where the internal information indicates the state of the processing apparatus at the time of responding to the control command. If the control program is a plurality of hierarchal layers, then it is transmitted to the terminal apparatus layer by layer. If the control program is dependent upon the type of terminal apparatus being used, then the terminal apparatus communicates the required information to the processing apparatus, which retrieves the appropriate control program from memory, and transmits same to the terminal apparatus.