To enable a customer to easily assign the corresponding image file at re-ordering times and to easily print and output images from the image file without originals.
There are provided an image-forming device which is the image- forming device for conducting both the output of the prints meeting image data and the output of the image data to the image file by photoelectrically reading the original images, converting the same into the digital image data and subjecting this image data to prescribed image processing and which has an original identification information input means for inputting the information to identify the originals and a database, for saving the information for identifying the inputted originals in association with the image file and the image- forming device.
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