Patent ID: 7251044

Claim:
An image printing method comprising: a regular character string registration step of registering a character string having at least one character as a regular character string; a regular printing instruction step of instructing regular printing for printing said regular character string, irrespective of whether or not a character string other than said regular character string is being input or edited; a regular printing step of printing a regular character string image corresponding to said regular character string on a printing object as a print image without displaying said regular character string image on a predetermined display screen when said regular printing is instructed; wherein a plurality of types of regular character strings can be registered as said regular character strings; and a regular printing image selection step of selecting any one of said plurality of types of regular character strings as a regular character string to be printed by said regular printing; said regular printing image selection step including: an identifier display step of displaying a plurality of types of identifiers corresponding respectively to said plurality of types of regular character strings on the predetermined display screen; and an identifier selection step of selecting any one of said plurality of types of identifiers.