Patent ID: 7304754

Claim:
An image inputting and outputting apparatus, comprising: an image inputting device which reads image data of at least one image recorded in a recording medium; a determining device which determines a number of pixels of the image data read by the image inputting device; a judging device which judges quality of an image that will be obtained when the image data read by the image inputting device is outputted to an outputting apparatus that performs at least one of printing and displaying of the at least one image, according to the number of the pixels determined by the determining device and a number of pixels required by the outputting apparatus; a displaying device which displays the at least one image according to the image data read by the image inputting device and displays a judging result obtained by the judging device; an instructing device which issues an instruction to an image outputting device to output the image data to the outputting apparatus; and the image outputting device which outputs the image data to the outputting apparatus according to the instruction issued by the instructing device.