Patent ID: 7006259

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus, provided with boxes each corresponding to an F-code which is received through a facsimile transmission procedure, executing a center-machine application using the corresponding box based on sub-address information when receiving image information, said apparatus comprising: a scanner configured to scan a document and generate facsimile image information corresponding to the scanned document; a plotter configured to print a received facsimile image; an F-code input requesting portion which requests a user to input an F-code when the user operates said apparatus for performing transmission; and a control portion which searches for the box for which an F-code is registered, the value of which F-code agrees with the value of the F-code input by the user, and, only when finding said box, agrees to accept the facsimile image transmission operation performed by the user, and registers, in document managing information for managing a transmission job relating to the transmission operation, identification information for said box as authentication information.