US 6,982,809 B2
Photographic printing system
Makoto Kagaya, Kaisei-machi (Japan)
Assigned to Fuji Photo Film Co., Ltd, Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Filed on Jan. 11, 2001, as Appl. No. 9/757,646.
Claims priority of application No. 2000-002608 (JP), filed on Jan. 11, 2000; and application No. 2000-383857 (JP), filed on Dec. 18, 2000.
Prior Publication US 2001/0007504 A1, Jul. 12, 2001
Int. Cl. G06F 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—1.18 26 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A printing system comprising:
a client having character image information generation means for generating character image information representing desired characters and/or a desired simple image by receiving an input of the character and/or the simple image, wherein the character image information generation means describes the character image information in order information representing the content of a printing order of the image data; and
a laboratory server having information printing means for printing the character and/or the simple image at a predetermined position on a print based on the character image information provided from the client, at the time of printing image data, wherein the information printing means prints the character and/or the simple image at the predetermined position of the print based on the order information.