The apparatus and a method are used to produce metal fiber, which can increase production efficiency of metal fiber using a metal plate and simplify manufacturing equipments and includes a controlling device. The input device includes a functional mode which defines the mode of operation of the input device. The invention also provides antisense nucleic acid molecules, recombinant expression vectors containing 25466 nucleic acid molecules, host cells into which the expression vectors have been introduced, and nonhuman transgenic animals in which a 25466 gene has been introduced or disrupted. Furthermore, when the local apparatus is designated to display a job list, to select a job therefrom and to print it, the local apparatus processes the job.