JPH09113997A - Photographing device provided with printer - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent the number of sheets printed out of the recording medium of a photographing device and the number of sheets printed out by a printer device from being overlapped in a composite camera. SOLUTION: In this device, the photographing device for recording video information on the recording medium and the printer device outputting the video information on recording paper are integrally constituted. It is provided with a control means 1 controlling the setting of the number of printed sheets in accordance with the state of the number of printed sheets instructed by 1st and 2nd printed sheet number setting means 13. The control means 11 controls to print out the specified video information by the number of printed sheets set by the 2nd setting means 13 and to reset the number of sheets obtained by subtracting the number of sheets set by the 2nd setting means from the number of sheets set by the 1st setting means 13 in the 1st setting means in order to set the number of sheets for printing the video information on the recording medium recorded by the photographing device.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a compound camera, and more specifically to a photographing device with a printer in which a still camera using a silver halide photographic film and an image printer can be integrally configured.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there have been voices who want to see photographic prints on the spot taken. On the other hand, U.S. Pat. No. 3,709,122, 3,727,529, 4,000,
A short time after photographing with a so-called instant camera and instant film such as the device disclosed in No. 500, 4,249, 811, 4,212, 524 and the like, and the film cartridge disclosed in US Pat. No. 3,707,116. A system for viewing prints is disclosed in.

However, the above-mentioned conventional apparatus has the following problems.

(1) All the images taken at the moment of shooting are recorded only on the instant film, and it is possible to leave them on a recording medium of high image quality which is excellent in storability represented by a silver salt film or the like. Since it is impossible to obtain a plurality of prints, there is no choice but to copy the image formed on the instant film, which is inconvenient as compared with a silver salt film and the like for storing the original image.

(2) Not all shooting scenes need to be printed out on the spot. But with instant photos, you can't print them out at once without printing them out on the spot.

As a method of compensating for the shortcomings of such instant photography, the image information picked up by the solid-state image pickup device is taken into the memory at a timing substantially equivalent to the exposure to the silver salt film, and this is arbitrarily printed out. A camera with a printer like this is conceivable.

Generally, (a) a fusion type thermal transfer printer, (b) a sublimation type thermal transfer printer, and (c) an ink jet type printer are suitable as printers used for printing out such color image information.

Among these, the ink jet type printer is excellent in running cost, downsizing, power saving, output speed and the like, and is very effective as a printer-equipped camera which requires portability.

As an example of these, US Pat. No. 4,074,3
No. 24, JP-A-54-136325 and the like disclose a camera with a printer that prints out information electrically imaged by a solid-state image sensor or the like. In this printer-equipped camera, an optical system that includes an objective lens that creates an optical image of the field and an optical image that is red,
A color separator for decomposing into green and blue, a photosensitive transducer for converting this optical image into an electronic image signal, an A / D converter for converting this electronic image signal into a digital signal, a memory for storing the same, and a memory D / A converter for converting a digital signal of the above into an analog signal, an electronic optical display device for visually displaying the analog electronic image signal, and a magnetic recording for recording the analog electronic image signal on a magnetic tape or the like. It is shown that it is composed of a reproducing apparatus, a printer which receives an electronic image signal from a magnetic tape and prints an image on an image receiving paper, and a control logic system which controls the above respective units.

[0010]

However, in the above-mentioned conventional example, the operability is prevented from becoming complicated by integrally configuring the device for taking a still image and the printer for outputting the image information on the medium such as paper. However, it does not provide a sufficient solution for the user to easily perform the intended shooting and print output, such as the device configuration and cost.

As an example of the photographing apparatus, consider a camera with a printer having a still camera using a silver salt film. According to this, it is possible to combine the silver salt still camera unit with high image quality, excellent storage stability, and easy duplication with the immediacy of the printer device, which is very effective. Let's consider the case where a camera such as a group trip or a party is used for shooting with a camera equipped with a printer so that a plurality of people can be shooting subjects. Usually, when shooting with a silver salt film, it is often the case that the number of people shown in the frame is printed and distributed afterwards. At this time, it is common to perform print processing at the same time as development processing once, check the number of people in the image while looking at this print, and then reprint it for additional printing, which is very inefficient.
It took a long time.

On the other hand, in a device such as US Pat. No. 4,884,092, a photographic camera device into which an IC card can be inserted so as to record the number of sheets to be printed on a film is shown. According to these apparatuses, the required number of prints can be designated before the development processing is performed in advance, which is very effective because the above-mentioned trouble can be omitted.

However, in the case of a printer-equipped camera, it is possible to print out on-the-spot image information that is approximately equivalent to the image information taken by the silver-salt still camera part, so prints output to the people on the spot. You can pass out. Therefore, even if the number of prints is designated in the silver salt camera section, it may be unnecessary for the person who handed the printout on the spot to print with the silver salt film. In such a case, there is a problem in that the printing using the silver salt film is wasteful and the printing fee becomes extra.

The present invention has been made in consideration of the above problems, and prevents the number of sheets printed out from the recording medium of the photographing device and the number of sheets printed out by the printer device from overlapping so as to prevent an excess. An object is to provide a device that does not print.

[0015]

In order to achieve the above object, one of the present invention is to integrate a photographing device for recording video information on a recording medium and a printer device for outputting the video information on a recording sheet. In the photographing device with a printer that can be configured as described above, a first print number setting unit that specifies the number of printouts from a recording medium recorded by the photographing device, and a second print number that specifies the number of printouts from the printer device. Setting means and control means for controlling these are provided. When the number of sheets set by the second number of prints setting means is printed out, the control means sets the number of prints set by the first number of prints setting means. Is reset to a number obtained by subtracting the number set by the second print number setting means. A. According to this, the number of prints by the photographing device is reduced by the number of printouts by the printer device.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, the photographing device is a still camera using a silver salt film having a magnetic storage unit,
According to this, when the print is made at the same time as the developing process, the operation for instructing the number of prints is performed.

A third aspect of the present invention is that when the number of sheets obtained by subtracting the number of sheets set by the second sheet number setting means from the number of sheets set by the first sheet number setting means is less than 0, the first print is performed. The number of sheets set by the sheet number setting means is one. According to this, when the second print number is set more than the first print number setting and the printout is performed, the first print number setting operates so that one is printed out.

[0018]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the drawings together with each embodiment.

(First Embodiment) An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the main configuration of the device of the present invention, and FIGS.
Is a flow chart showing the flow of operation.

The apparatus of the present invention employs an ink jet recording system for the printer engine section and an apparatus using a silver salt film with a magnetic storage section for the still camera section.

First, the control relationship of the image pickup apparatus with a printer according to this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. In the figure, reference numeral 1 is a control unit for comprehensively controlling the camera unit and print unit, and 2 is an exposure time, an aperture degree, a focus position, recording, reproduction, etc. according to an instruction from the control unit 1 for the camera unit and the magnetic recording / reproducing unit. Camera control unit to control,
3 is an optical lens according to the image information of the camera control unit 2,
A camera unit for exposing a silver salt film, including a lens barrel, 10
Is a magnetic recording / reproducing means for recording or reproducing image information or the like on or from a magnetic recording section (102 described later) of the film, and 11 is a camera section 3
It is a film of a medium for exposing the image by the above, and recording and reproducing the image information by the magnetic recording and reproducing means 10. Further, 4 is a printer control unit that controls a printer or the like that prints according to an instruction of a control signal of the control unit 1, 5 is an image pickup unit that includes an optical lens, an aperture unit, a CCD that performs photoelectric conversion, and the like, and 6 is an image pickup unit. A printer engine unit that drives a printer unit including an inkjet printer IJRA, and prints out an image signal stored in a memory. An image memory unit 7 stores the photoelectron image signal obtained from the image pickup unit 5 as a digital signal. 1
Reference numeral 3 is a film print number setting means for setting the print number in advance, and 14 is a printer output number setting means for setting the actually required printer output number.

The operation procedure using these will be described below with reference to the flow charts of FIGS.

When the photographer inputs power (S1), the control means 1 determines whether or not, for example, three days or more (72 hours or more) have passed since the device was last used and turned off. (S2). If three days or more have passed, the control means 1 issues a recovery pumping instruction to the printer control section 4 which controls the printer section, and drives the printer engine section 6 (S3).

Here, the recovery pumping is to make recording more effective in an ink jet recording type apparatus which will be described later, and is to clean the recording head by means such as a suction pump before recording on a sheet. is there. As a guideline for this cleaning, in this embodiment, when there is an unused period of 3 days or more, cleaning is performed by recovery pumping when the power is input.

Next, the photographer uses the film print number setting means 13 to set the number of prints to be printed when the film is subjected to the development process during photographing. In addition, in order to prevent mistakenly the print output from the printer device, the print by the film developing process is a film print, and the print from the printer device is a printer output.

The number of film prints is set by the film print setting button 13a on the upper surface of the apparatus.
If you press it twice, it will increase by one.

The set number of sheets can be confirmed on the horizontal film print number display plate 13b.

When the number of film prints is input by the film print setting button 13a, the control means 1 stores it. Here, it is assumed that M sheets are set (S
4).

After a series of preparations, the photographer pushes the shutter button 12 to the first stroke for photographing, and the SW1 signal 8 is generated (S5).

In response to this, the control means 1 causes the camera control section 2
The camera unit 3 is driven via to determine the exposure control value (A
E), determination of distance measurement information (AF), and determination of various conditions necessary for the exposure operation, such as the presence or absence of strobe light emission (S6).

At the same time, the control means 1 drives the image pickup section 5 via the printer control section 4, and an aperture unit (1039 which will be described later) so as to keep the amount of light input to a solid-state image pickup element (1040 which will be described later) of the image pickup section 5 appropriately. ) Is controlled to determine the image pickup condition of the image information for printer output (S7).

Next, when the photographer further presses the shutter button 12 to actually perform photographing, the SW2 signal 9 is generated (S8).

The control means 1 drives the camera unit 3 via the camera control unit 2 to drive the lens for focusing, speed control of the shutter, aperture amount control, and if necessary, strobe light emission. A series of exposure operations is performed (S9).

At the same time, the control means 1 drives the image pickup section 5 via the printer control section 4, and the solid-state image pickup element (see 10 below) is driven.
The image information input to 40) is taken into the image memory unit 7 at the timing of this SW2 signal 9 (S10).

When the photographing is completed, the photographer inputs whether or not to print out using the printer device (S).
11).

If the printer is to output N sheets, the printer output sheet number setting button 14a is used to set the printer output sheet number. The set number of sheets can be confirmed on the horizontal printer output display board 14b. The control means 1 stores this number N (S14). This work can also be performed when setting the number of film prints. On the other hand, if the printer output number setting button 14a is not pressed for a predetermined time (10 seconds in this embodiment), or if the shutter button is pressed again, it is determined that the printer output is not performed, and the control unit 1 controls the camera. The camera section 3 is driven through the section 2 to start the operation of feeding the film 11 by one frame (S12). FIG. 5 shows a film with a magnetic storage unit, and the control unit 1 drives the magnetic recording / reproducing unit 10 in synchronization with the feeding operation so that the magnetic recording unit 102 corresponding to the photographing frames 1 to 36 of the film 11 is formed. The information of the number M of the film prints, which has been input previously, is recorded together with other information such as date and character caption (S13).

Here, the shape of the film used in this embodiment is shown in FIG. 5, and the manner of recording / reproducing images and image information will be described. In FIG. 5, 100 is the film 11
And 101 are perforations that are used to detect the running amount of the film 11 during feeding. Reference numeral 103 denotes a magnetic storage unit arranged in front of the photographing frames 1 to 36, which is effective for recording information specific to the film 11, such as ISO sensitivity and ID number.

On the contrary, when the above-mentioned printer output is set to N sheets and the print start button 14c is input, the control means 1 first drives the printer engine section 6 through the printer control section 4, and the recording head (400 described later). In order to make the printing operation more effective at the home position of (1), first, preliminary ejection is performed to eliminate clogging of the recording head 400 and to recover evaporated nozzles (S1).
5).

Then, the printer control section 4 includes an image memory section 7
The image information stored in (1) is output from the printer engine unit 6 after being subjected to image processing for printer output (S
17).

The printer output is continuously performed by the set number N of sheets. (S16) When the print output of N sheets is completed from the printer engine section, the control means 1 compares the set number M of film prints with the set (output) number N of printer outputs. Therefore, the difference I =
MN is calculated (S18). Then, the difference I of the calculated results is compared with a positive value or a negative value including 0, and if the value of I is positive, M = I and the value of M are replaced again.

When the value of the difference I is a negative value, it is replaced with M = 1, and when the value of the difference I is 0, it is replaced with M = 0 (S).
19, S20, S21, S22, S23).

This will be explained in an easy-to-understand manner by using an example. It is assumed that, for example, four people took a photograph at a destination. I set the number of film prints to 4 so that everyone could own the photos of the trip later (M = 4). In this shooting, three people made a printer output because they wanted to print by a printer output on the spot (N = 3). In such a case, as the film print, the three sheets output by the printer output have already been passed to the persons themselves, so only the remaining one sheet needs to be film printed.

Further, the printer output for all (in this case, 4
No need for film printing when done.

On the other hand, it is presumed that there was a special reason when the printer output was performed for all (more than 5 in this case). Therefore, film printing is the minimum 1
It is better to do the same for each sheet so that the photographed contents can be grasped even when a film print is obtained after developing the film.

In order to cover the above three cases, the value of M is replaced by the value of difference I.

After this, as in steps S12 and S13 of the flow chart shown in FIG. 3, the control means 1 drives the camera part 3 via the camera control part 2 to start the operation of feeding one film 11 of film. Yes (S24). Then, the magnetic recording / reproducing means 10 is driven in synchronization with the feeding operation, and the magnetic recording portion 1 corresponding to the photographing frames 1 to 36 of the film 11 is driven.
Information on the number M of replaced film prints is recorded in 02 together with other information such as date and character caption (S25).

By operating as described above, it is possible to set the number of film prints in consideration of the number of printer outputs without complicated operations.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram of an ink jet recording device section IJRA to which the image pickup device with a printer of the present invention is applied.

Here, the carriage HC is the drive motor 10
Driving force transmission gears 1011 and 1
A pin (not shown) that engages with the spiral groove 1005 of the lead screw 1004 that rotates via 009,
It is reciprocated in the directions of arrows a and b.

An ink jet head cartridge 400 is mounted on the carriage HC. A paper pressing plate 1002 presses the paper against the platen 1000 in the moving direction of the carriage HC. Reference numerals 1007 and 1008 denote photocouplers, which are levers 1006 of the carriage HC.
This is a home position detecting means for confirming the crossing existence in this area and switching the rotation direction of the motor 1013. Reference numeral 1016 is a member that supports the cap member 1022 that caps the front surface of the recording head, and 1015 is a suction unit that sucks the inside of the cap, and performs suction recovery of the recording head through the opening 1023 in the cap.

Further, 1017 is a cleaning blade,
Reference numeral 1019 denotes a member that allows the blade to move in the front-rear direction, and these members are supported by the main body support plate 1018. Needless to say, the blade 1017 is not limited to this form and a known cleaning blade can be applied to this example.

Reference numeral 1012 is a lever for starting suction for suction recovery, and the cam 1 engaging with the carriage HC.
It moves with the movement of 020, and the driving force from the driving motor 1013 is movement-controlled by a known transmission means such as clutch switching.

The capping, cleaning, and suction recovery are configured so that the desired processing can be performed at their corresponding positions by the action of the lead screw 1005 when the carriage HC is positioned in the home position side area. If the desired operation is performed at a known timing, any of this example can be applied. In particular, the inkjet recording system is provided with a means (for example, an electrothermal converter or a laser beam) for generating thermal energy as energy used for ejecting ink,
The present invention brings about excellent effects in a recording head and a recording apparatus of the type in which the state of ink is changed by the heat energy.

The typical configuration and principle are described in, for example, US Pat. Nos. 4,723,129 and 4,740.
It is preferable to use the basic principle disclosed in the specification of Japanese Patent No. 796. Especially in the case of the on-demand type, this system uses an electrothermal converter arranged in correspondence with a sheet or liquid passage holding a liquid (ink), which corresponds to recorded information and rapidly exceeds nucleate boiling. By applying at least one drive signal that gives rise to a temperature rise, heat energy is generated in the electrothermal converter, causing film boiling on the heat-acting surface of the recording head, resulting in a one-to-one correspondence with this drive signal. This is effective because bubbles can be formed in the liquid (ink). By discharging the liquid (ink) through the discharge opening by the growth and contraction of the bubble, at least one droplet is formed.

It is more preferable to make this drive signal into a pulse shape, because the growth and contraction of the bubbles are immediately and appropriately performed, so that the ejection of the liquid (ink) with excellent responsiveness can be achieved.

As the pulse-shaped drive signal, those described in US Pat. Nos. 4,463,359 and 4,345,262 are suitable. still,
US Patent No. 4 of the invention relating to the rate of temperature rise of the heat acting surface
If the conditions described in the specification of No. 313124 are adopted, more excellent recording can be performed.

As the constitution of the recording head, in addition to the combination constitution (straight liquid passage or right-angled liquid passage) of the ejection port, the liquid passage, and the electrothermal converter as disclosed in the above-mentioned respective specifications, heat is used. U.S. Pat. No. 4,558,333, U.S. Pat. No. 44, which discloses a configuration in which the action portion is arranged in a bending region.
The configuration using the specification of No. 59600 is also applicable to the present invention.

In addition, Japanese Unexamined Patent Publication No. 59-123670 discloses a structure in which a common slit is used as a discharge portion of the electrothermal converter for a plurality of electrothermal converters, and a pressure wave of thermal energy is absorbed. The present invention is also effective as a configuration based on Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 59-138461, which discloses a configuration in which the corresponding opening corresponds to the ejection portion.

Further, as a full line type recording head having a length corresponding to the width of the maximum recording medium which can be recorded by the recording device section, by combining a plurality of recording heads as disclosed in the above-mentioned specification, Either the structure that satisfies the length or the structure as one recording head integrally formed may be used, but by adopting these structures, it is possible to more effectively exhibit.

In addition, by being mounted on the apparatus main body, it can be electrically connected to the apparatus main body and can be supplied with ink from the apparatus main body by a replaceable chip type recording head or the recording head itself. This is also effective when a cartridge-type recording head provided specially is used.

Further, it is preferable to add a recovery means for the recording head, a preliminary auxiliary means, etc., which are provided as a configuration of the recording apparatus section of the present invention, because the effect of the present invention can be further stabilized. is there.

More specifically, the recording head is preliminarily prepared by capping means, cleaning means, pressure or suction means, an electrothermal converter or a heating element other than this, or a combination thereof. It is also effective to perform stable recording by performing a preliminary discharge mode in which discharge is performed separately from the heating means and recording.

Further, the recording mode of the recording device section is not limited to the recording mode of only the mainstream color such as black, but the recording head may be integrally formed or a plurality of combinations may be used. Therefore, it is extremely effective that the device is provided with at least one of full colors by color mixing.

FIG. 7 is a conceptual diagram of a central section of the compound camera of the present invention. The still camera unit in the compound camera of the present invention is a so-called twin-lens reflex camera having a viewfinder for visually recognizing a subject separately from the photographing optical system, and is disposed above the printer unit to form a printer image between the still camera unit and the printer unit. The second image pickup optical system using the solid-state image pickup element of is arranged.

In the still camera section, lens units 1028a and 1028b of the photographing optical system are arranged for the retractable two-stage type lens barrels 1029 and 1030, respectively.
Reference numeral 1031 denotes a shutter unit that controls the photographing light flux and also controls the exposure amount.
Are located in Reference numeral 1032 denotes a helicoid member that rotates the lens barrel 1030, and the cam convex portion 10 of the lens barrel 1030.
It is engaged with 30a. The helicoid member 1032 is
It is driven by a helicoid drive motor (not shown).

The photographing optical systems 1028a and 102 described above
The light flux passing through 8b and the shutter unit 1031 forms an image on the film 1033.

The film 1033 is pressed by a pressure plate 1034 urged by a pressure plate spring 1035 in order to maintain its planarity and maintains an optical positional relationship. Reference numeral 1036 denotes a back cover of the still camera unit, which is opened / closed when the film 1033 is exchanged.

Next, 1037a, 1037b, 103
Reference numerals 7c, 1037d, and 1037e are optical system lenses that form a finder. 1037b, 1 of these
The reference numerals 037c and 1037d move with the adjustment of the angle of view (zoom operation) of the photographing optical system, and the angle of view substantially the same as the angle of view of the photographing optical system can be confirmed.

Further, 1038a and 1038b are lens units of an image forming optical system for sending image information such as exposure time and focus distance measurement to the printer section.

Next, 1039 is an aperture unit,
The solid-state imaging device (CCD) 1040 is driven by feedback control so as to be properly maintained.

These lens units 1038a and 1
The 038b also moves along with the adjustment of the angle of view (zoom operation) of the photographing optical system of the still camera unit, and it is possible to capture an image of the same angle of view as the angle of view of the photographing optical system.

Solid-state image sensor 10 for printer image formation
The image signal from 40 is processed by the signal processing board 1026.

When signal processing is performed to generate a printer control signal, the signal is sent to the printer control board 102.
7 is supplied to a drive motor or the like required for the printing operation together with information such as a position control signal of the inkjet head cartridge 400 of the printer unit.

The print operation is performed by the print start button 14c.
Printer paper 1024, which has been started by
024a is pulled out and printed.

Further, reference numeral 1041 denotes a paper cutter portion formed by an exterior cover, which is used when the printed portion after printing is cut off by hand.

Reference numeral 1025 denotes a power supply battery for driving the printer unit and the photographing device, which supplies electric power to both in common.

By combining the film photographing by the still camera of the present invention and the print output by the printer in such a compound camera, it is possible to exert a reasonable function without waste.

[0078]

As described above, according to the present invention,
By controlling the number of printouts from the recording medium of the shooting device according to the number of printouts from the printer device, duplicate printouts will be eliminated, and prints will be wasted or extra print fees will be charged. It has the effect of not being present.

Further, when the number of printouts from the printer device is larger than the number of printouts from the recording medium of the photographing device, one sheet is printed out from the recording medium, so that a special use is possible. Since it is possible to secure one print when it is supposed that the image was taken, it has an effect that it is easy to confirm after what was taken.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart of the first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart of the first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 5 is a shape view of the film of the first embodiment according to the present invention.

FIG. 6 is a conceptual diagram of an inkjet recording apparatus according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 7 is a central cross-sectional view of the device according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 control means 2 camera control section 3 camera section 4 printer control section 5 image pickup section 6 printer engine section 7 image memory section 8 SW1 9 SW2 10 magnetic recording / reproducing means 11 film 12 shutter button 13 film print number setting means 14 printer output number setting means

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A photographing device with a printer, wherein a photographing device for recording video information on a recording medium and a printer device for outputting the video information on a recording sheet can be integrally configured. First print number setting means for designating the number of sheets to be printed out from the medium; second print number setting means for designating the number of sheets to be printed out from the printer device; the first and second
The control means controls the setting of the number of prints according to the state of the number of prints designated by the second number of prints setting means, and the control means sets predetermined video information by the second number of prints setting means. The number of prints is printed out, and the number of prints of the image information of the recording medium recorded by the photographing device is set by the second number of prints setting means from the number of prints set by the first number of prints setting means. An image pickup apparatus with a printer, which is controlled so as to reset the number of sheets after subtracting the number of sheets to the first print number setting means. 2. The photographing apparatus with a printer according to claim 1, wherein the photographing apparatus is a still camera using a silver salt film having a magnetic storage unit. 3. If the number of sheets obtained by subtracting the number of sheets set by the second number of printed sheets setting means from the number of sheets set by the first number of printed sheets setting means is less than 0, then by the first number of printed sheets setting means The photographing device with a printer according to claim 1, wherein the number of sheets is set to one. 4. A photographing device with a printer, wherein a photographing device for recording video information on a recording medium and a printer device for outputting the video information on a recording sheet can be integrally configured. The first print number setting means for designating the number of sheets to be printed out from the medium, the second print number setting means for designating the number of sheets to be printed out from the printer device, and the first and second print number setting means. A control means for controlling the setting of the number of prints according to the designated number of prints, wherein the control means prints out predetermined video information by the number of prints set by the second print number setting means, Subtract the number of printed sheets from the number of sheets set by the first sheet number setting means, and subtract the difference. Serial imaging apparatus with a printer, wherein the control is to replace the set number of the second print number setting means.