Mitigating degradation of a memory in an image forming system

An image forming system comprising:

• an image forming apparatus;
• a processing apparatus configured to communicate with the image forming apparatus;
• and
• a computer that requests the image forming apparatus and the processing apparatus for image processing and image formation,
• wherein the computer includes
• a communicator that communicates with the processing apparatus and the image forming apparatus, and
• a computer side display that displays information of the computer,
• the processing apparatus includes
• a memory that stores at least image data,
• a generator that generates drawing data or intermediate data based on the image data stored in the memory, the intermediate data being intermediately generated in generation of the drawing data based on the image data,
• a transmitter that transmits the drawing data or the intermediate data generated by the generator to the image forming apparatus,
• a determiner that determines degradation status of the memory,
• an interface unit that is used for connection of a processing-apparatus-side display device which displays information of the processing apparatus,
• an intermediate data generator that interprets the drawing data to generate the intermediate data, and
• a drawing data generator that generates the drawing data based on the intermediate data,
• the image forming apparatus includes
• an image former that forms an image on a medium based on the drawing data or the intermediate data received from the processing apparatus, and
• an image-forming-apparatus-side display that displays information of the image forming apparatus,
• the processing apparatus causes the computer side display to display an alert in a case where the determiner determines that the degradation status satisfies a predetermined condition, when the processing-apparatus-side display device is not connected to the interface unit, and
• the transmitter transmits, to the image forming apparatus, the intermediate data in a case where the degradation status is determined to satisfy the condition and the drawing data in a case where the degradation status is determined not to satisfy the condition.