Interactive printer persistent storage provider

A system for providing printed information to a user that is obtained from a first server means of a first party, the system including:

• at least one user printer module being provided by a second party for interfacing the user with the first server means, the module being responsive to the user requesting first information from the first server means for generating a first printed media that displays the first information;
• identifier means for providing the first printed media with a first identifier of a third party such that designation of the first identifier by the user results in the module communicating second information to the first server means or to a second server means of a fourth party, the first printed media including coded data indicative of an identity of the first printed media and of a plurality of reference points on the first printed media, the coded data identifying a unique location of each of the reference points relative to the first printed media, wherein an association in the first server means between the first identifier and the identity of the first printed media is automatically created when the first printed media is generated;
• account means for providing payments to the third party and for receiving payments from one or more of the first party, the second party and the fourth party and
• calculation means for calculating the quantum of payments to the third party, the payments being at least proportional to the number of requests of the first information.