Patent ID: 7502133

Claim:
A service server for communicating with a first user terminal and a second user terminal via a network and accepting a print instruction for an image uploaded from the first user terminal, comprising: a receiving device which receives the image for which the print instruction is given from the first user terminal, and additional information associated with the image; a database which manages the additional information on the received image; an access information issuing device which issues access information for accessing the additional information managed in the database; a print instruction device which sends a string or a code including the access information, along with the image for which the print instruction has been accepted, to a printer to print the string or the code and the image on a print medium; and a sending device which, when the second user terminal accesses, based on the string or the code including the access information printed on the print medium, by using the access information, reads from the database the additional information corresponding to the access information, and sends the additional information to the second user terminal which has accessed.