Patent ID: 7180610

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus comprising: a double-side image transmitting section configured to set an image formed on each side of an original sheet as an original image corresponding to one page, and to transmit a plurality of said pages corresponding to images formed on obverse and reverse sides of each said original sheet; an additional page transmitting section configured to automatically transmit a predetermined additional image as one page in a predetermined position with respect to the plurality of pages of images; and a no-image notifying section configured to skip transmission of an image corresponding to a reverse side of the additional image transmitted by the additional page transmitting section, and to transmit predetermined notification information for notifying a reception side that the transmission of said image corresponding to the reverse side has been skipped; wherein said double-side image transmitting section utilizes a double-side communication protocol which conforms to Recommendation T.30 of International Telecommunication Union-Telecommunication sector (ITU-T), and wherein said no-image notifying section adds said notification information to indicate that transmission of a previous image has been skipped into a post message concerning an image to be transmitted immediately after skipping of the transmission of the previous image.