Patent ID: 8054333

Claim:
A printing order reception apparatus, comprising: a display unit carrying out various kinds of display for a print order; an input unit receiving various kinds of input for the print order; a plurality of types of slots for inserting therein various types of recording media, each storing an image, and equipment including a recording medium storing an image; a printing controller configured to execute printing processing according to a predetermined printing condition in the case where a specific one of the slots has a corresponding equipment inserted therein, regarding the image stored in the recording medium in the equipment; a recording unit configured to record an index image having an optically readable mark area for a print order on a surface of the optical recording medium; and an image recording unit configured to record an image to be deleted in the optical recording medium that enables optical recording therein, wherein one of the slots is a slot for the optical recording medium, the slot for the optical recording medium having a reading unit configured to read the mark area of the index image, the printing controller is configured to execute the printing processing according to information of the mark area having been read, and the printing controller is configured to delete the image from the recording medium included in the equipment after execution of the printing processing.