To provide a facsimile equipment having confidential function even in the case of the facsimile equipment having no memory to store received image data or of not using such a memory.

An image obtained by scrambling received image data at a CPU 11 according to a prescribed rule based on a password registered in advance on a confidential table in a RAM 17 is printed out once by a printer 23. Then a CCD 21 reads again the paper on which the scrambled image is printed out and the CPU 11 descrambles the read data according to a prescribed rule based on the password inputted from a key matrix 14 at that point of time by the user.