FIG. 17 is a flow chart showing operation of the printing management system PKS according to Exemplary Embodiment 2. The printing management system PKS according to Exemplary Embodiment 2 will be described below with reference to the flow chart of FIG. 17.

In order to make it easy to describe or understand hereinafter, assume that the users US1 to US4 belonging to one and the same office A exchange business cards with “10” other persons TS1, “7” other persons TS2, “5” other persons TS3, and “3” other persons TS4, respectively.

Step S20: in a similar manner to or the same manner as the step S10 according to Exemplary Embodiment 1, the user US1 uses the terminal apparatus TMu1 to register business cards MSr1 received from the other persons TS1 into the printing management apparatus PK. In other words, a CPU 12 (shown in FIG. 2) in the printing management apparatus PK serves as a communication section 21 and an acceptance section 22 (shown in FIG. 8) to accept the registration of the business cards MSr1 of the other persons TS1 from a CPU 32 serving as a communication section 41 (shown in FIG. 10) of the terminal apparatus TMu1 through a network NW.

The CPU 12 in the printing management apparatus PK accepts registration of business cards MSr2 to MSr4 which the other users US2 to US4 have received from the other persons TS2 to TS4 in a similar manner to or the same manner as the user US1.