CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is based on and claims priority under 35 USC 119 from Japanese Patent Application No. 2020-120574 filed Jul. 14, 2020.

BACKGROUND

(i) Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to an image forming system, an image forming apparatus, and a non-transitory computer readable medium.

(ii) Related Art

Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2011-65369 discloses a print system in which a user holding a wireless terminal logs into an image forming apparatus when the distance between the wireless terminal and the image forming apparatus is equal to or smaller than a predetermined login distance and in which the login distance of a user who has input a processing request to the image forming apparatus is set to be larger than that of another user who has not input a processing request to the image forming apparatus.

Japanese Unexamined Patent Application Publication No. 2006-150778 discloses an image processing apparatus that processes a processing request received from a user, and in the case where a user moves away from the image processing apparatus during the period when a processing request from the user is processed, the image processing apparatus outputs a notification to an information processing terminal used by the user when the processing relating to the processing request is completed.

In the related art, there is known an image forming system in which a print request is transmitted to an image forming apparatus from a user terminal used by a user, and then, the user moves to the location of the image forming apparatus and inputs an execution instruction of processing relating to the print request to the image processing apparatus.

In an image forming system of the related art, there has been a problem in that the status of a print request is unknown to a user after the print request has been transmitted toward an image forming apparatus from a user terminal. If there is such a problem, for example, a user may not be able to use the image forming system without any concern. For example, assume that a user who has performed an input operation so as to instruct a user terminal to transmit a print request to an image forming apparatus moves to the location of the image forming apparatus, to which the user supposes that the print request has been transmitted, and that it turns out that the image forming apparatus does not hold the print request. In such a case, there are various possible reasons why the image forming apparatus does not hold the print request, and examples of the possible reasons are as follows: the user has transmitted the print request to another image forming apparatus by mistake, another person has unreasonably input an execution instruction of the print request so as to cause the image forming apparatus to perform processing relating to the print request and then has walked away with a printed material, and the print request has become lost due to, for example, a malfunction of the image formation system. Since it is difficult to determine such possible reasons, some companies prohibit the use of such image forming apparatuses especially in the case where the image forming apparatuses are installed in public places.

SUMMARY

Aspects of non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to enabling a user to comprehend the status of a print request transmitted from a user terminal to an image processing apparatus.

Aspects of certain non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure overcome the above disadvantages and/or other disadvantages not described above. However, aspects of the non-limiting embodiments are not required to overcome the disadvantages described above, and aspects of the non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure may not overcome any of the disadvantages described above.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided an image forming system including a user terminal that includes a terminal-side processor and an image forming apparatus that includes an apparatus-side processor. In response to receiving an instruction to transmit a print request to the image forming apparatus from a user, the terminal-side processor is configured to hold the print request instead of transmitting the print request to the image forming apparatus and is configured to transmit user information indicating the user to the image forming apparatus. The apparatus-side processor is configured to transmit a transmission-request signal to the user terminal in response to detecting, on a basis of the user information, that the user comes near the image forming apparatus. The terminal-side processor is configured to transmit the print request held by the terminal-side processor to the image forming apparatus in response to receiving the transmission-request signal.

