Patent ID: 7242496

Claim:
A facsimile machine comprising: a touch panel type user interface to enter operations from a user, the operations including selecting file specifying information specifying a file to be transmitted from the facsimile machine and entering a transmitting instruction to transmit the specified file from the facsimile machine; means for transmitting the file specifying information specifying the file to be transmitted from the facsimile machine in response to entry of the transmitting instruction to transmit the specified file, wherein the means for transmitting transmits the file specifying information to a data conversion device which processes the file specified by the file specifying information and generates an image content in accordance with a file of a prescribed data format; means for acquiring from the data conversion device, the image content generated in accordance with the file specified by the file specifying information; means for converting the image content into communication data for a facsimile transmission; and means for transmitting the communication data to a prescribed destination.