Patent ID: 7362483

Claim:
A postprocessing apparatus that conducts postprocessing on an image forming member, comprising: a receiving unit that receives an image forming member having an image formed thereon; and an attaching unit that attaches a hologram recording medium to the image forming member, the hologram recording medium having related information that comprises digital data related to the image formed on the image forming member, wherein the related information comprises at least one type of information selected from the following information groups, (a) information concerning settings used and history from the forming of the image on the image forming member; (b) additional information that is not displayed on the image forming member; (c) region data representing regions of the image forming member in which the image is displayed, and attribute data representing attributes of images displayed in each region; (d) authentication data for restricting access to the related information; (e) distribution restriction information for restricting copying of the displayed image and distribution of related information, and (f) at least a part of image information being formed on the image forming member.