SYSTEM AND DEVICE FOR PRINTING AND VENDING INFORMATION, AND PROGRAM RECORDING MEDIUM THEREFOR

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable centralized management of the present conditions on various printing consumption articles such as paper sheets and inks to be consumed on the side of each of vending machines, on the center side and to efficiently perform the maintenance management of printing consumption articles by making respective print vending machines a network and connected to the center side for communication. SOLUTION: Each of print vending machines PT detects remaining amounts of various printing consumption articles such as paper sheets and inks to be consumed for image printing and transmits them to a service center managing device SC and the service center managing device SC collects and manages the remaining amounts by printing consumption articles transmitted from each of print vending machines.