Patent ID: 7660021

Claim:
A facsimile machine comprising: an image forming section configured to produce a received facsimile document by forming an image of a document, which has been received from a source via a facsimile transmission, on at least one sheet of recording paper; a discharge section on which the received facsimile document image-formed by the image forming section is discharged; a reception information storing section storing reception information of a received facsimile document, every time a facsimile is received from the source, the reception information being stored in association with recording paper identification information read from a non-contact memory provided on a plurality of respective sheets of the recording paper and which identifies each sheet of the recording paper uniquely; a placement status obtaining section provided in the discharge section and configured to obtain a placement status of the received document in the discharge section as being present or absent by reading the recording paper identification information of the non-contact memory; and a received document managing section configured to manage the received facsimile document based on the placement status obtained by the placement status obtaining section and stored information of the reception information storing section.