AN IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS ADMINISTRATION SYSTEM INCLUDING A COMMMUNICATION CONTROL UNIT AND AN ADMINISTRATING DEVICE

Work start data is transmitted to an administrating device (a service center) by a work start data transmitting mechanism when an instruction for start of a maintenance work is issued from a work start instructing mechanism, and work end data is transmitted to the administrating device by a work end data transmitting mechanism when an instruction for end of the maintenance work is issued from a work end instruction mechanism. Also time measurement is started by a time measuring mechanism when an instruction for start of a maintenance work is issued from the work start instructing mechanism, and in a case where, even if the measured time reaches a prespecified period of time, an instruction for end of the maintenance work is not issued from the work end instructing mechanism, work end data is automatically transmitted by a work end data automatically transmitting mechanism to the administrating device. For the reasons as described above, reporting from a serviceman to a service center before start of or after end of a maintenance work for an image forming apparatus at a customer's site can be smoothly executed.