To easily show a template prepared in a digital print device at each store to a customer by outputting a template reduced picture or a preliminarily prepared template reduced picture as an index picture.
Four templates (identification information) for giving service to a customer is stored in a hard disk 24. An instruction to output this template is inputted from a keyboard 22 by an operator. Thus, the four template stored in the hard disk 24 are transmitted to a reduction and layout means 26, and reduced and layout-processed, and transmitted to an overlay memory 20 so as to be stored. The reduced and layout-processed template stored in the overlay memory 20 are transmitted through a frame memory 15 to a printer part 16, and outputted as an index print from the printer part 16.
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