Image forming system including image forming apparatus and portable terminal

An image forming system including an image forming apparatus performing image formation and a portable terminal,

• wherein
• the image forming apparatus has a non-contact IC tag;
• and
• the portable terminal includes:
• a selection part that receives selection of a maintenance screen to perform maintenance of the image forming apparatus from plural maintenance screens;
• a display part that displays the selected maintenance screen;
• a near field communication part that performs near field communication with the IC tag when the portable terminal comes close to the IC tag;
• and
• a control part that performs data communication with the image forming apparatus through the near field communication part,
• wherein
• when the portable terminal is brought close to the IC tag, the control part performs data communication corresponding to the maintenance screen displayed on the display part through the near field communication part with the image forming apparatus,
• the image forming system further comprises a server that is connected to a network and stores plural solutions correspondingly with an error occurrence state of the image forming apparatus
• the portable terminal includes a communication part that performs data communication with the server via the network, and
• if an error occurs in the image forming apparatus, when the portable terminal is brought close to the IC tag in a state where a fourth maintenance screen to acquire a solution to the error, the control part functions as an error solving support part that acquires an error occurrence state at the time of the error occurrence from the image forming apparatus through the near field communication part, acquires the solution corresponding to the error occurrence state from the server through the communication part, and displays the solution on the display part.