To provide an automatic vending machine system which photographically prints and vends a digital image photographed by a portable communication terminal (portable telephone, PDA).
This system comprises a connecting means which connects the portable communication terminal (portable telephone, PDA) and a portable communication terminal photographic print automatic vending machine, a readout means which reads image data out of the portable communication terminal, an input means which inputs information needed to photographically print the read-out image, a vending control means which performs control according to money, a print control means which performs control based upon the information needed for the photographic printing, a means which detects consumption article and operation states, etc., of the photographic print automatic vending machine, and a transmitting and receiving means which sends and receives data between the photographic print automatic vending machine and a photographic print automatic vending machine management center.
HARUTA KAZUHIKO