An electronic device includes: a display device; a toner color determining section configured to determine, from print data, one or more use toner colors as the colors of toners for use during printing based on the print data; a degree-of-recommendation determining section configured to determine a degree of recommendation of the image forming apparatus according to a probability of a situation preventing printing on the image forming apparatus; and a degree-of-recommendation display section configured to allow the display device to display the degree of recommendation determined by the degree-of-recommendation determining section, wherein the degree-of-recommendation determining section is configured to acquire apparatus information about the image forming apparatus from a server on a network and determine the probability according to whether information, included in the apparatus information, on the toners of the use toner colors determined by the toner color determining section meets a specified criterion.