Patent ID: 7450253

Claim:
An image forming device, comprising: an attribute information reading unit for reading out attribute information of an electronically tagged printed matter wherein image data is printed on an electronically tagged printing paper equipped with an electronic tag for storing electronic data in a certain part of the printing paper and said electronic tag stores image data printed on said electronically tagged printing paper, from said electronic tag; a display unit for displaying modifiable items among attribute information read out by said attribute information reading unit; an attribute information modifying unit for modifying the attribute information displayed by said display unit; an image reading unit for reading out the image data from the electronic tag of said electronically tagged printed matters; an image data modifying unit for modifying the image data read out by said image data reading unit based on the attribute information modified by said attribute information modifying unit; a printing unit for printing the image data modified by said image data modifying unit on another electronically tagged printing paper equipped with an electronic tag for storing electronic data in a certain part of the another printing paper; and a writing unit for writing the attribute information read out by said attribute information reading unit and the image data read out by said image data reading unit on the electronic tag of the another electronically tagged printing paper on which the modified image data is printed by said printing unit.