In order to transmit a screen in a shortened period of time, an MFP includes a request command receiving portion to receive one of a plurality of predetermined request commands from a PC, a history storing portion to store a piece of history information including the received request command, a predicting portion to determine a predicted command among the plurality of request commands based on the stored piece of history information, a predicted screen creating portion to create a predicted screen in accordance with the determined predicted command, and a transmitting portion to transmit the predicted screen when a request command received by the request command receiving portion is the same as the predicted command.