Generation of prints from an array of images and information relative to such images

In an electronic color printing process in which images from an array of multicolor images from respective frames of a filmstrip are provided on print receiver sheets or alternative storage media from color information signals representing a plurality of sets of color separation image information, a method for producing prints from the array of multicolor images, such method comprising the steps of:

• a) prescanning, at low resolution, an array of multicolor images contained on respective frames of a filmstrip;
• b) storing information data, obtained during low resolution prescanning, of the scene content of the respective images, and additional information data of at least one of (i) where frames of the image array are located in the filmstrip, (ii) the type of filmstrip being scanned, and (iii) the conditions of each image;
• c) defining look-up-tables based on the information data stored in step (b);
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• d) processing the information data stored in step (b) with the look-up-tables defined in step (c) to produce prints of the array of multicolor images.

In an electronic color printing process in which images from an array of multicolor images from a filmstrip are reproduced on print receiver sheets or alternative storage media from color information signals representing a plurality of sets of color separation image information, a method for producing an index print of the array of multicolor images, such method comprising the steps of:

• a) prescanning, at low resolution, an array of multicolor images contained on a filmstrip;
• b) strong information data, obtained during low resolution prescanning, of the scene content of the respective images, and additional information data of at least one of (i) where frames of the image array are located in the filmstrip, (ii) the type of filmstrip being scanned, and (iii) the conditions of each image;
• c) defining look-up-tables based on the information data stored in step (b);
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• d) processing the information data stored in step (b) with the look-up-tables defined in step (c) to produce on one print receiver sheet, at low resolution, an index print of the array of multicolor images.

An electronic color printer in which images from an array of multicolor images from a filmstrip are reproduced on print receiver sheets or alternative storage media from color information signals representing a plurality of sets of color separation image information, said electronic color printer comprising:

• a) means for prescanning, at low resolution, an array of multicolor images contained on respective frames of a filmstrip;
• b) means associated with said prescanning means for storing information data, obtained during the prescan, of the scene content of the images, and at least one of (i) where frames of the image array are located in the filmstrip, (ii) the type of filmstrip being scanned, and (iii) the conditions of each image;
• c) means for defining look-up-tables based on the information data stored by said storing means;
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• d) means for processing information data from an array of multicolor images contained on a filmstrip or the like with the look-up tables defined by said look-up-table defining means to produce prints of the array of multicolor images.