Patent ID: 6970262

Claim:
A color image communication apparatus comprising: a communication circuit for performing communications with an opposite device; a printer unit, in which a color cartridge for normal color printing or a high-definition color cartridge for high-definition color printing is selectively loaded, for color or monochrome-printing an image received by the communication circuit on a recording medium; a memory for storing the image; detecting means for detecting a state of the printer unit; setting means for setting validation or invalidation of an alternative memory reception function to store the received image in the memory if printing is inexecutable in the printer unit; presetting means for presetting permission or non-permission of received image printing carried out by using the high-definition color cartridge; and communication control means for performing control as to whether color reception ability declaration is made in self machine ability declaration, said control being performed during call incoming according to a detecting result of the detecting means, if the alternative memory reception function is set to be invalid by said setting means, wherein, even when said setting means invalidates alternative memory reception and said detecting means detects that the printer unit is in a state capable of performing printing, if said presetting means presets non-permission of received image printing by the high-definition color cartridge, said communication control means controls such that the color reception ability declaration is not made.