Electronic apparatus and image forming system

An image forming system comprising:

• one or more image forming apparatuses;
• a first storage unit that stores control information for controlling each of the image forming apparatuses depending on their configuration;
• and
• a permitting unit that permits acquisition of control information stored on the first storage unit, based on authority information for a user who uses each of the image forming apparatuses,
• each of the image forming apparatuses including:
• an authority information acquisition unit that acquires authority information for a user who uses the image forming apparatus;
• a second storage unit that stores current control information currently used to control the image forming apparatus;
• a third storage unit that stores current configuration information representing a current configuration of the image forming apparatus;
• an available control information outputting unit that outputs available control information permitted by the permitting unit, based on the current configuration information stored in the third storage unit and the authority information acquired by the authority information acquisition unit;
• an instruction accepting unit that accepts an instruction to acquire at least one of versions of available control information output by the available control information outputting unit from the first storage unit;
• an information acquisition unit that acquires control information according to the instruction accepted by the instruction accepting unit from the first storage unit;
• and
• an updating unit that updates the current control information stored in the second storage unit, based on the control information acquired by the information acquisition unit.