Video printer for making video image hard copies

A video printer having a printing unit for obtaining a hard copy of a video image, said video printer comprising:

• a first memory for storing one frame of an inputted video signal;
• a second memory having a storage capacity X times as large as said first memory in the horizontal scan direction and Y times as large as said first memory in the vertical scan direction, where X and Y are positive integers:
• means for making a multifreeze image, comprising M sub-frames in the horizontal scan direction and N sub-frames in the vertical direction, said sub-frames being inlaid within a single frame, by reading the video signal stored in said first memory while thinning said video signal by a first factor of X/M in the horizontal scan direction and by a second factor of Y/N in the vertical scan direction to reduce the size of said video image, and by writing said thinned video signal in a predetermined area of said second memory:
• and
• means for reading a video signal from said first memory when a hard copy of one frame video image is to be made, and reading a video image from said second memory when a hard copy of a multifreeze image is to be made.