| abstract |
An image forming apparatus and an image forming method capable of forming an image using electronic information added to an image forming member without attaching an apparatus that needs to be collected to the image forming member such as paper media. provide. Relevant information is read from a hologram recording medium mounted on a document sheet by a hologram reading unit, and the read related information is stored in a related information storage unit. When the start of the printing operation is instructed, the original paper 38 is conveyed to the image reading unit 16, the original image is read, and the read image data is input to the image processing unit 17. Then, the image processing unit 17 is controlled to synthesize the image data and the related information, generate an output image (synthesized image), and print the generated output image on the printing paper 36. [Selection] Figure 8 |