Patent ID: 7532341

Claim:
A facsimile apparatus comprising: a printer that has a plurality of printing colors; a designated calling-party printing color storage unit that stores calling-party information as to designated calling parties each associated with a designated printing color different from a default printing color; a transmission origin determiner that determines whether the transmission origin of image information received in a receiving operation is one of the designated calling parties stored in the designated calling-party printing color storage unit, based on calling-party information accompanying the image information; a designated color printing control unit that causes the printer to print the image information using the corresponding designated printing color stored in the designated calling-party printing color storage unit, when the transmitter origin determiner determines that the transmission origin of the image information is one of the designated calling parties; a substitute printing color setting unit configured to set different substitute printing colors for the respective designated calling parties registered in the designated calling-party printing color storage unit, wherein the different substitute printing colors for the respective designated calling parties are set by a user through said substitute printing color setting unit; and a substitute printing unit that causes the printer to print the image information with a substitute printing color instead of the designated printing color, when the printing cannot be performed with the designated printing color associated with the transmitter origin that has been determined to be one of the designated calling parties by the transmitter origin determiner.