FACSIMILE APPARATUS

摘要

A facsimile apparatus uses IP addresses in facsimile communications. A communicating section receives image data sent from a communication partner apparatus via a facsimile transmission, based on an IP address of the communication partner apparatus and of the facsimile apparatus. A printing section prints the image data. An IP address registering section registers therein, in advance, an IP address of each of one or more communication partner apparatuses. An IP address obtaining section obtains the IP address of the communication partner apparatus. A printing rejection processing section judges whether the obtained IP address has already been registered. If the obtained IP address is determined as an unregistered IP address, the printing rejection processing section performs a printing rejecting process, and the printing rejection information storing section stores therein a specifying image and the unregistered IP address as printing rejection information. A notifying section provides printing rejection information as a notification.

主权项

1. A facsimile apparatus that uses IP addresses in facsimile communications, comprising:
a communicating section configured to receive image data that is sent from a communication partner apparatus via a facsimile transmission, on a basis of an IP address set with the communication partner apparatus and an IP address set with the facsimile apparatus; a printing section configured to print a facsimile image represented by the image data received by the communicating section; an IP address registering section configured to register therein, in advance, one or more IP addresses set with one or more communication partner apparatuses each of which sends image data of a facsimile image that should be printed, to the facsimile apparatus via a facsimile transmission; an IP address obtaining section configured to obtain the IP address set with the communication partner apparatus when the communication partner apparatus has sent a facsimile to the facsimile apparatus; a printing rejection processing section configured to, when the facsimile sent from the communication partner apparatus to the facsimile apparatus was sent via a sender-number-undisclosed facsimile transmission, judge whether the IP address obtained by the IP address obtaining section is one of the registered IP addresses that have already been registered in the IP address registering section or an unregistered IP address that has not yet been registered therein and to perform a printing rejecting process if the obtained IP address is determined to be the unregistered IP address; a printing rejection information storing section configured to, if the obtained IP address is determined to be the unregistered IP address, store therein a specifying image and the unregistered IP address as one piece of printing rejection information; and a notifying section configured to provide one or more pieces of printing rejection information stored in the printing rejection information storing section as a notification, wherein the sender-number-undisclosed facsimile transmission is to send the facsimile from the communication partner apparatus to the facsimile apparatus, without informing the facsimile apparatus of a facsimile number set with the communication partner apparatus, the printing rejecting process is a process of preventing the printing section from printing the facsimile image represented by the image data sent via the sender-number-undisclosed facsimile transmission, and the specifying image is an image used for specifying the facsimile image represented by the image data sent via the sender-number-undisclosed facsimile transmission.