Patent ID: 6879372

Claim:
An image processing apparatus comprising: optical read means for optically reading image data from a film; magnetic read means for magnetically reading additional information concerning a size corresponding to an aspect ratio of the image data from the film; selection means for selecting and feeding a predetermined paper from among a plurality of paper storage units that store different size papers respectively on the basis of the additional information read by said magnetic read means; and setting means for manually setting each paper size corresponding to the additional information, wherein the additional information includes information concerning a normal size, a panorama size and a hi-vision size, said selection means selects, in case of setting the paper size other than the normal size, the paper which has a size larger than paper selected in case of setting the normal size, and control means for causing said selection means to start the feeding of the predetermined paper before the image data to be printed to the predetermined paper selected by said selection means based on the information of the film is read from the film by said optical read means, and for causing to perform, simultaneously, the reading of the image data from the film by said optical read means and the feeding of the predetermined paper by said selection means.