摘要 |
<p>A distribution of printable paper sheets (10) with advertisements pre-printed or embedded thereon through conventional retail channels. Alternatively, a printable paper sheet printed with ads is downloaded from the Internet (50) for general use by any interested party. The user can register with a sponsor/intermediary to receive such general or specific advertising from his/her computer related printing device (20). As consideration, the user receives credits or points based, e.g., on the number of pages or ads printed. Alternatively, a computer-directed printer is modified, e.g. by connecting a programmable IC or equivalent means to its control circuit to add ads to a predetermined printable fields on the printable paper sheets passing though the printer (20). Alternatively, the IC device can be installed in the computer's CPU or printer to control the printer's operation.Predetermined or random areas of the paper sheets are thereby allocated to receive printed ads, leaving printable field constituting the rest of the sheet to receive printed information downloaded from the Internet, or otherwise created by the user.</p> |