Abstract: A work station apparatus includes an electronic mail function. In the work station apparatus, a transmission box icon and object icons indicative of objects to be transmitted are displayed on the display screen of a display unit, and an instruction for transmitting an electronic mail is given in a manner such that a desired object icon is selected from the object icons and is placed on the transmission box icon. The work station apparatus includes a storing unit for storing the destination data set in connection with the transmission box icon, a developing unit for developing the destination data into destination data of the data body corresponding to the object icon in response to the instruction for transmitting the electronic mail, and a transmitting unit for performing a transmission process of the data body according to the developed destination data.

Abstract: A picture printing device and method for printing pictures using a main scan and a sub scan. A first comparison means counts the number of picture elements in a main-scanning direction and compares that number with a first value preset in the first comparison means. A second comparison means counts the number of scanning lines in a sub-scanning direction and compares that number with a second value preset in the second comparison means. A printer records predetermined signals in response to combinations of the outputs of the first and second comparison means.