Printer and image management method

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a printer capable of facilitating image management for specifying one image from among a plurality of images. SOLUTION: The printer prints an index image of an image acquired from at least one of a plurality of image acquisition sources and prints an order sheet for receiving instructions of various processing regarding the image. The printer is provided with an image acquiring means for acquiring the image at least from one of the plurality of image acquiring sources, an image management means, which manages each image to be acquired and image specification information for specifying the image by making them to correspond to each other, and a print execution means for printing a specific code generated by coding the image specification information on the order sheet together with the index image. The image management means sets the image specification information of the image to be acquired on the basis of management information for managing the image for each image acquisition source and recognition information for recognizing that the image to be acquired has content different from those of the already acquired image. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI