Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Takeshi Kasahara

Hiroki Takahashi

Kimiyasu Mizuno

Takahiro Mizushina

Wataru Nimura

Toshifumi Hoshii

A photographic print vending apparatus is provided which comprises a media accepting unit which accepts a recording medium having photographic image information stored thereon. An image information reader reads the image information from the recording medium, and a plurality of printers print images based on image data from a processor connected to the image information reader and an advertisement information storage unit. When an advertisement printing mode is set, the processor reads the advertisement information from the advertisement information storage unit, synthesizes the read advertisement information and the image information read by the image information reader, and supplies the synthesized information to the printers as image data.

Printing apparatus and printing method using a plurality of printers and which distributes a print job in accordance with a remaining amount of an expendable supply in each printer

Printing apparatus and printing method

Each image print apparatus is connected to a nearest base station by radio, and a plurality of base stations are connected to a public communication network. A server apparatus is connected to the public communication network. The server apparatus sends an image of advertisement information to a plurality of image print apparatuses via the public communication network and base stations, and each image print apparatus additionally prints the image of advertisement information received from the server apparatus on a photo image to be printed, which is designated by the customer.

Customer terminal apparatus and information distribution server

Printing system, photographing apparatus, printing apparatus and

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Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Kasahara