Patent ID: 7310163

Claim:
An information input/output system, comprising: printer servers configured to connect with an Internet; facsimile servers configured to connect with the Internet; printers configured to connect with the printer servers; facsimile apparatuses configured to connect with the facsimile servers; terminals configured to connect with the Internet, to access information contents on the Internet, and to transmit printing request data including at least a contents ID specifying information contents for printing from among information contents on the Internet, and a print outputting destination ID specifying at least one of the printers and facsimile apparatuses for printing therewith specified information contents for printing; and a printing request administration server configured to connect with the Internet, to receive the printing request data transmitted from the terminals, and to transmit the printing request data to at least one of the printer and facsimile servers determined according to the print outputting destination ID, wherein the printing request administration server is configured to compile and edit, for each of the terminals, information as to the specified information contents for printing and at least one of the printers and facsimile apparatuses for printing therewith the specified information contents for printing, specified by the contents ID and the print outputting destination ID, respectively, received from the terminal and to notify at least one of a contents provider of the specified information contents for printing and a system administrator of the information input/output system of a result of compiling and editing the information.