To provide an image-forming device that can automatically acquire information existing in an information providing server existing on a computer network and permits easy viewing of the acquired information.

The image-forming device automatically gets access (S503) to a given address, based on previously registered setting information, acquires (S504) the accessed information, and according to the content of print execution setting information included in the setting information, either performs or does not perform printing processing (S505-S506) for the acquired information.