Patent ID: 7486411

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: an image data inputting part inputting image data; a first storing part storing the image data input by said image data inputting part; a second storing part storing at least additional information including date/time information and a total number of times of image formation; a combining part combining the image data stored by said first storing part with the additional information stored by said second storing part in an overlapping manner only when the total number of times of image formation is greater than one; and an image forming part forming an image on a recording medium from the image data processed by said combining part, wherein said combining part modifies the additional information stored in the second storing part to be combined in the overlapping manner with the image data according to the total number of times of image formation, and wherein a sort of information from among the information stored by said second storing part, which said combining part combines with the image data, is made different according to the number of times of image formation.