When a first user on a network is to provide information to a second user, this invention allows the second user to visually output the information even if an information processor used by the second user does not have a function of reading electronic data as a source of the information. In this invention, when information formed by a PC (111) on a network (110) is to be output to the user of a PC (103) on the network (100), the PC (111) issues a print job to a printer (102) and notifies the PC (103) of the issue. Upon receiving this notification, the PC (103) gives execution designation of the job to the printer (102). The print job is then executed, and the printed product is handed over to the user of the PC (103).