Patent ID: 7102776

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus comprising: a receiver configured to receive image data transmitted via a network; a printer configured to print an image indicated by the image data; an image storage configured to store the image data; a memory receiving processing section configured to store the image data received by the receiver in the image storage when a failure occurs such that the printer cannot carry out printing; an address storage configured to store an E-mail address; a timer configured count an elapsed time after the image data is stored in the image storage; a control section configured to cause the printer to print the image indicated by the image data stored in the image storage, if the printer becomes able to carry out printing before the timer reaches a time-out timer value; and a transmission processing section configured to transmit to a computer network an E-mail having the image data attached thereto as an attachment file using the E-mail address stored in the address storage as a destination address, if the timer reaches the time-out timer value before the printer becomes able to carry out printing.