Patent ID: 7835686

Claim:
An image forming device comprising: an image forming unit adapted to form an image on a fed recording medium; a re-feeding unit adapted to re-feed the recording medium on which the image has been formed by the image forming unit, to the image forming unit; a writing unit adapted to be able to execute at least information writing in a non-contact manner to a non-contact IC chip added to the recording medium fed to the image forming unit; and a control unit adapted to execute control to cause, in a case where the information writing to the non-contact IC chip by the writing unit was correctly executed, the image forming unit to execute the image formation to the recording medium to which the non-contact IC chip has been added, and to execute control to cause, in a case where the information writing to the non-contact IC chip by the writing unit was not correctly executed, the re-feeding unit to re-feed the recording medium to the image forming unit and to cause the writing unit to again execute the information writing to the IC chip added to the recording medium re-fed by the re-feeding unit.