Patent ID: 6519057
Filing Date: 2003-02-11
Classification: G06K,H04N

Abstract:
An image recording apparatus operable in a facsimile mode to receive data transmitted from a sending station via a line and a printer mode to record data sent from an external host computer apparatus, comprising:setting means for setting one of said facsimile mode and said printer mode; storage means for storing the transmitted data from the sending station in said facsimile mode and storing the data from the external host computer apparatus in said printer mode; record means for recording an image on a recording medium in accordance with the data stored in said storage means; and control means for controlling the setting of said printer mode by said setting means in accordance with whether or not unrecorded data transmitted from the sending station is stored in said storage means, such that said control means inhibits the setting of said printer mode when there is unrecorded data transmitted from the sending station stored in said storage means and permits the setting of said printer mode when there is no unrecorded data that was transmitted from the sending station stored in said storage means.