To provide a method for collecting the price of print from a user in a printing system, by which a printer performs printing-out by acquiring high resolution information for printing corresponding to print request information from a portable information terminal.

The printing system can refer to contents by a portable telephone 10 and can download contents information for printing to a printer 20 by making a contents server 30 authenticate authentication information imparted to a user contracting in advance with a portable telephone company. The user pays basic charges for using the printing system according to the contract with the portable telephone company but these basic charges are substitutively collected by the portable telephone company together with communication tariffs and an amount subtracting a prescribed fee (9% of basic charges, for example), from the basic charges is paid to the provider of a print function in the printing system.