Patent ID: 7821396

Claim:
An image forming device for reading out an image from a document and forming the read-out image on a recording sheet, comprising: a management level information acquiring unit operable to acquire management level information of the document; a storing unit operable to separately store different types of recording sheets that respectively correspond to different document management levels; a judging unit operable to judge whether the management level information acquired by the management level information acquiring unit corresponds to a first management level according to which the document is a not-tagged document to which a contactless IC tag is not attached or a second management level according to which the document is a tagged document to which a contactless IC tag is attached; and a recording sheet selecting unit operable to select a first type of recording sheet corresponding to the first management level in the case that the management level information is judged to be the first management level, and to select a second type of recording sheet corresponding to the second management level in the case that the management level information is judged to be the second management level, wherein the second management level includes a plurality of management levels, and the storing unit is operable to store a plurality of types of recording sheets, each of the plurality of types of recording sheets having a different number of contactless IC tags in correspondence with the plurality of management levels included in the second management level, and the recording sheet selecting unit is operable to output a type of recording sheet having a greater number of contactless IC tags when a higher management level is detected in the second management level.