Patent ID: 8081331
Filing Date: 2011-12-20
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image forming apparatus, comprising: an input part for inputting information; a processing part for processing the information; a storing part for storing the information; an output part for outputting the information by applying color materials to a sheet-shaped member based on output information; a writing part for writing the output information to a portable recording medium, the output information including an output format used to apply the color materials to the sheet-shaped member; a scanner for scanning an original as image information, the image information being stored in the storing part; a stocking part for stocking a plurality of sheet-shaped members and a plurality of blank portable recording media, a quantity of the sheet-shaped members being stocked more than a quantity of the portable recording media; a plurality of providing parts for providing the blank portable recording media to the image forming apparatus, the plurality of providing parts including a storage member stocking part that stores a plurality of storage members; an accommodation part configured to package a portable recording medium, having been written on by the writing part, into a storage member, of the plurality of storage members, obtained from the storage member stocking part, the portable recording medium, having been written on by the writing part, packaged into the storage member in a state such that the portable recording medium, having been written on by the writing part, is removable from the storage member; and an integration part configured to integrate the storage member having packaged therein the portable recording medium which has been written on by the writing part, and the sheet shaped member to which a color material is applied, the storage member having visual information relating the portable recording medium and the sheet shaped member printed thereon, wherein the input part, the processing part, the storing part, and the output part are centralized at one place, and send and receive the information to and from each other.