Abstract: A facsimile machine has: a reception unit for receiving image data transmitted from a remote facsimile machine at a fixed reception speed; a first memory for temporarily storing the image data supplied from the reception unit; a decoding unit for decoding the image data retrieved from the first memory into record data; a second memory for temporarily storing the record data obtained by the decoding unit; a recording unit for performing a recording operation for each cut sheet with the record data, at a recording speed having a value corresponding to the reception speed; a memory unoccupied area amount detection unit for detecting at least one of the amount of a remaining memory area in the first memory unoccupied by the image data and the amount of a remaining memory area in the second memory unoccupied by the record data; and a recording speed changing unit for selectively changing the value of the recording speed to another value faster than the value when at least one of the first memory unoccupied area am

Abstract: A facsimile machine contains a first memory for temporarily storing image data supplied from a reception unit; a second memory for temporarily storing record data produced by a decoding unit; and a memory unoccupied area amount detection unit for detecting at least one of the amount of unoccupied memory area in the first memory and the amount of unoccupied memory area in the second memory. The machine also has a compulsory reducing unit, which converts the record data representative of an image of each of at least one page of document into reduced record data representative of an image reduced from the image of the corresponding page at a predetermined reduction rate, when at least one of the first memory unoccupied area amount and the second memory unoccupied area amount detected by the memory unoccupied area amount detection unit is equal to or less than corresponding one of first and second predetermined threshold values.