IMAGE PROVIDING DEVICE, PRINTING DEVICE, REPRODUCTION DEVICE, IMAGE PRINTING SYSTEM, IMAGE PROVIDING METHOD, AND PRINTING METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printing medium with data associated with an image, but can not be printed on the printing medium as an image, etc.

SOLUTION: A communication means 19 of an image providing device 3 communicates with an image printing device 4 that is capable of writing data to an IC chip 112 implanted in the printing medium 111. A printing instruction means 41 transmits an image file 21 to be printed by the printing device 4 and data of the image file 21, or writing data including data associated with the image of the image file 21 from the communication means 19, and makes the IC chip 112 of the printing medium 111 that prints the image of the selected image file 21 write the writing data.

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