Patent ID: 8438143

Claim:
A printing method in a printer, comprising: receiving additional information which is extracted from a digital multimedia file from a portable multimedia apparatus; interpreting the additional information which is received and obtaining at least one item which is included in the additional information; and printing the at least one item which is obtained, wherein the additional information of the digital multimedia file is stored within the digital multimedia file, the additional information is received directly from the portable multimedia apparatus and not through a computer, the digital multimedia file comprises multimedia data and the additional information, the multimedia data comprises at least one of audio data, video data and data for language study purposes, and the item comprises at least one of audio meta information regarding the audio data, video meta information regarding the video data, and language study meta information regarding the data for language study purposes, and wherein the receiving the additional information of the digital multimedia file comprises: receiving a print request which requests printing of the additional information of the digital multimedia file from the portable multimedia apparatus.