Patent ID: 8630019

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image forming unit adapted to be capable of receiving first image data and attribute data, forming an image corresponding to the first image data on a transfer material using at least one of color-toner and monochrome-toner, and forming an image of information indicated by the attribute data on the transfer material in a manner superimposed on the image using clear-toner; a generation unit adapted to generate second image data from the attribute data; a control unit adapted to perform control such that the first image data and the second image data are recorded as history information on a job processed by the image processing apparatus; a synthesizing unit adapted to synthesize the first image data and the second image data; and a selecting unit adapted to select one of: a mode for synthesizing, by the synthesizing unit, the first image data and the second image data and recording the synthesized image data and a mode for separately recording the first image data and the second image data without synthesizing the first image data and the second image data.