Patent ID: 8169655

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive an image file including image data transferred from an image supplying apparatus via an interface; a storing unit that stores at least one form data including position information of spaces, the form data indicating data to be printed in the spaces in correspondence with images in the image data, for an entire page; an image combining unit that combines the image data and a selected form data from the stored form data to generate a combined output image, and that determines a number of images selected for printing and a number of the corresponding spaces in the selected form data; and wherein when the image combining unit determines there are more spaces indicating data to be printed in correspondence with the images in the image data in the selected form data than a corresponding number of images selected for printing, the image combining unit combines the image data and selected form data such that form data associated with a space not including a corresponding image in the image data is not printed in the combined output image.