Abstract: A print server connected to medical diagnostic imaging equipment via a network or dedicated channels, wherein the print server executes a process to identify the device that is the source of image data received via the network or dedicated channels and outputs the image data to a specific sorter bin in a printer based on this source. The image output processor can also selectively choose a sorter bin as an output destination for the image data, based on either attribute data or the device that transmitted the image data, depending on the communication protocol.

Abstract: An image record processing method comprises: (1) generating a plurality of record jobs corresponding to a plurality of image information data transmitted from at least one of an image information source; (2) performing record processing to achieve heat development; the processing including: (2-1) performing one of the record jobs with a heat development recording apparatus, to thus form a latent image through exposure of a heat development recording material; and (2-2) heating the heat development recording material having the latent image formed thereon, and (3) sequentially performing the record processing with respect to each of the remaining record jobs, wherein, when the heat development recording apparatus receives a predetermined operation instruction from an operation input section while the record processing is being performed, at least a part of the processing of the operation instruction is performed simultaneously with at least a part of the record processing.