1. A image processing device comprising: a controller; and a memory storing an application therein, the application, when executed by the controller causes the image processing device to: monitor, at initiation of the image processing device, a communication address assigned to the image processing device to detect whether a current communication address is different from a previously assigned communication address, acquire, from the memory, a configuration data object associated with the current communication address in response to detecting that the current communication address is different from the previously assigned communication address, the configuration data object being associated with the current communication address and includes one or more parameters for controlling one or more operations of the image processing device, and automatically configure the image processing device using the one or more parameters acquired from the configuration data object.