Patent ID: 8760718

Claim:
An image printer comprising: an original image storage unit which stores data of an original image; an address book storage unit which stores addressees data including names and addresses of addressees; an attribute setting unit which sets a pictorial tone changing attribute for each of the addressees data which changes the data of the original image to a designated tone; an addressees data selection unit which selects one addressee data to be printed from the addressees data; a pictorial tone changing unit which changes the data of the original image to image data having the designated tone based on the pictorial tone changing attribute set for the addressee data by the attribute setting unit; a printing unit which executes a printing operation of printing the addressee data and the image data having the designated pictorial tone; and a control unit which, in response to an addressee printing instruction to print the selected addressee data, (a) makes the printing unit execute a printing operation of printing the addressee data on a first area of printing media, and (b) makes the printing unit execute a printing operation of printing the changed image data having the designated pictorial tone on a second area of the printing media; wherein the attribute setting unit sets the pictorial tone changing attribute by each of relations in the addressees data which includes at least one of personal friends, colleagues in a company and relatives.