Patent ID: 6952684

Claim:
An image commercial transactions system comprising: a reception host including: a photographic image printing machine having a photographic image scanner for converting a picture on a film into photographic digital image data, a server for storing said photographic digital image data, a computer for accepting a sale of a digital image stored on said server in a digital data format with a handling condition related to said digital image, and transferring means for transferring said digital image with said handling condition in said digital data format stored in said server to a selected one of a plurality of receiver sides via an Internet line so that digital image data transferred via said Internet line is developed into a printed picture modified based on said handling condition; and a charge accounting dealer for effecting an electronic charge accounting transaction for the transfer by said reception host of data of said digital image with said handling condition to said selected one of said plurality of receiver sides, wherein said computer further transfers information data related to said transferred digital image to a user's computer, wherein said selected one of said plurality of receiver sides is selected by a user and is different from said user's computer.