Images over a network, speech output system

A constructed system includes multiple clients, a server like a print portal, and multiple printers connecting with a network. A client transmits a printing requirement, which specifies a content of interest to be printed, to the print portal through communication C1. The printing requirement is kept in the print portal in such a state that enables specification by address information IPMP of the client. Direct communication C2 is established between a printer and the client by means of feeble radio wave or infrared, and the print portal fetches address information IPMP of the client and identification information of the printer through the direct communication C2. The print portal compares the two pieces of address information received on the two different communication lines with each other and specifies the printer identified by the identification information as an output resource. This arrangement enables the output resource to be easily specified in the process of printing via the network without any troublesome operations on the client.