COMMUNICATION DEVICE, PRINTER, AND EXPENDABLE PARTS ORDER ACCEPTING DEVICE

摘要

The present invention pertains to an STB (100) used by being connected to a printer (200) and a content distributing apparatus (21) that receives an order for consumables (223a-223c) used by the printer (200). The STB (100) includes the following: a communication I/F unit (103) for obtaining a content with which a point value is associated; a job management unit (106b) which outputs the obtained content so as to allow the printer (200) to print it, and also accumulates the point value associated with the content; a point accumulation unit (109); a printer I/F unit (107); and an ordering control unit (106a) for transmitting, to the content distributing apparatus (21), a notification for ordering consumables, together with the accumulated point value. The content distributing apparatus (21) receives the order for the consumables from the STB (100), and performs charging processing of reducing the price of the consumables by the amount equivalent to the point value transmitted together with the order.