Image forming system, management server, and recording material information detecting apparatus

An image forming system comprising:

• a recording material information detecting apparatus;
• and an image forming apparatus, which are connected with each other via a network,
• wherein the recording material information detecting apparatus includes:
• a first hardware processor that detects recording material characteristic information representing a characteristic of a first recording material from the first recording material;
• a second hardware processor that acquires first environmental information representing an environment in which the recording material information detecting apparatus is installed;
• and
• a sixth hardware processor that associates and manages the recording material characteristic information and the first environmental information, and, when receiving the second environmental information representing an environment in which the image forming apparatus is installed together with a request for acquiring the recording material characteristic information from the image forming apparatus, transmits the recording material characteristic information, which is the first environmental information corresponding to the second environmental information and associated with the first environmental information, to the image forming apparatus,
• the image forming apparatus includes:
• an image former that forms an image on a second recording material different from the first recording material;
• a third hardware processor that acquires second environmental information representing an environment in which the image forming apparatus is installed;
• a fourth hardware processor that transmits the second environmental information to the recording material information detecting apparatus and requests the recording material characteristic information corresponding to the second environmental information;
• and
• a fifth hardware processor that sets an image formation condition for the image former to form the image on the second recording material based on the recording material characteristic information acquired from the recording material information detecting apparatus.

A recording material information detecting apparatus connected via a network to an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a second recording material, comprising:

• a first hardware processor that detects recording material characteristic information representing a characteristic of a recording material from a first recording material different from the second recording material;
• a second hardware processor that acquires first environmental information representing an environment in which the recording material information detecting apparatus is installed;
• and
• a sixth hardware processor that associates and manages the recording material characteristic information and the first environmental information, and, when receiving second environmental information representing an environment in which the image forming apparatus is installed together with a request for acquiring the recording material characteristic information from the image forming apparatus, transmits the recording material characteristic information, which is the first environmental information corresponding to the second environmental information and associated with the first environmental information, to the image forming apparatus.