To improve the service to customers and to make the improvement of the turnover rate of customers by enabling selected images to be printed immediately after the images are selected and reducing the waiting time to obtain the printed images to the utmost even when many images are printed.

When 'speed print' is selected as a print type, respective pieces of plural desired images are successively selected as printing objects from among a list of candidate images which are selectable as the printing objects. Thus, in processes to successively select the respective pieces of the plural desired images as the printing objects, a CPU 11 gives printing requests of them to an image printing part 18 whenever the respective images are selected and immediately starts the print of the selected images.