To provide facsimile equipment which makes transmitted document which has high urgency to be surely recognized and received by a receiving destination.

This equipment 100 consists of a scanner 1, a plotter 2, an encoding and decoding section 3, an operation displaying section 4, an image memory section 5, a RAM 6, a communication controlling section 7, a communication information managing section 8, an output controlling section 9, a light emitter/loudspeaker 19 and a character generator 11. Because the data denoting an urgency rank for document data to be transmitted from the part 4 are set and inputted, the urgency of document transmitted to facsimile equipment on a receiving side can be recognized. Also, because a light emitter or a loudspeaker which informs that a urgent document has been received by the facsimile equipment is provided, it is possible to inform that the urgent document is being received through announcement from the light emitter/speaker 10, when delay occurs owing to a failure, such as paper jamming or another document output.