JP2926849B

PURPOSE:To allow the execution of album printing in a specified vertical direction in simultaneous printing by reading photograph information in a vertical or horizontal direction recorded by each of the respective photograph images of films and setting the arrangement patterns to be printed with the photograph images. CONSTITUTION:An exposure control value, trimming information, frame number, date, and the photographing information on the vertical direction and the horizontal direction are recorded in the memory built in a film side at the time of photographing. Five kinds of the arrangement patterns; for example, one sheet of photograph of a vertical image plane and three sheets of photographs of horizontal image planes positioned in the uppermost stage by juxtaposing the vertical image plane and the horizontal image planes and the horizontal image planes respectively disposed in the middle stage and the lower stage, are previously prepd. as the arrangement patterns at the time of album printing. The printing of the images P and the printing of the character information Q are separately executed. Any of the arrangement pattern among the 1st to 5th arrangement patterns is selected from the photographing information on the horizontal or vertical direction of the respective frames and the images are printed successively from the top frame of the film at the time of image printing.