Image forming apparatus forming images based on received image data, terminal device transmitting image data to the image forming apparatus, image forming system including image forming apparatus and terminal device, and non-transitory computer readable medium

An image forming apparatus, connected to a terminal device through a communication link including a wireless link, receiving image data transmitted from the terminal device and forming an image based on the image data, the image forming apparatus comprising:

• a wireless communicator that communicates with the terminal device through the wireless link;
• a link state detector that detects a state of the wireless link;
• and
• a notification setting means for setting the terminal device to notify a user of a method of improving radio wave intensity, when the radio wave intensity of the wireless link becomes equal to or lower than a prescribed threshold value.

A terminal device, connected to an image forming apparatus through a wireless link, the terminal device comprising:

• a transmitter that transmits image data to the image forming apparatus;
• and
• a link state detector that detects a state of the wireless link;
• wherein
• the terminal device detects the state of the wireless link and determines whether the radio wave intensity of the detected state of the link is equal to or lower than a prescribed threshold value;
• the terminal device, in response to the radio wave intensity of the detected state of the link being equal to or lower than a prescribed threshold value, notifies a user of a method of improving radio wave intensity.

An image forming system, including a terminal device transmitting image data, and an image forming apparatus connected to the terminal device through a communication link including a wireless link, receiving the image data transmitted from the terminal device and forming an image based on the image data, the image forming system comprising:

• a link state detector that detects a state of the wireless link;
• wherein
• each of the terminal device and the image forming apparatus includes wireless communicators that communicate with each other through the wireless link;
• the terminal device detects the state of the wireless link and determines whether radio wave intensity of the detected state of the wireless link is equal to or lower than a prescribed threshold value;
• the terminal device notifies a user of a method of improving radio wave intensity when the radio wave intensity of the wireless link becomes equal to or lower than the prescribed threshold value;
• and
• the image forming further apparatus includes a setting screen that is used to set the terminal device to notify the user of the method of improving radio wave intensity when the radio wave intensity of the wireless link becomes equal or lower than the prescribed threshold value.

A non-transitory computer readable medium containing a computer program, causing a computer connected to an image forming apparatus through a communication link including a wireless link to function as:

• a transmitter that transmits image data to the image forming apparatus;
• a link state detector that detects a state of the wireless link;
• a radio wave intensity determiner that detects a state of the wireless link and determines whether a radio wave intensity of the detected state of wireless link is equal to or lower than a prescribed threshold value;
• a notifier that, responsive to the radio wave intensity of the detected state of wireless link being equal to or lower than the prescribed threshold value, notifies a user of a method of improving radio wave intensity;
• wherein
• the notifier is set to notify the user of the method of improving radio wave intensity in accordance with an instruction from the image forming apparatus.