Patent ID: 7474436

Claim:
A photographic printing system comprising: a film reader for reading photographic image of a photographic film; a printer for printing the photographic image on an image recording medium based on photographic image data obtained through the film reader; a writer for writing at least the photographic image data in a loaded optical disc of the WORM (Write Once Read Many) type; and a controller for controlling the writing process of the writer; wherein said controller allows writing, in the optical disc, of both the image data and a display processing program for displaying the image data written in the optical disc on a monitor when the optical disc has no data pre-written therein and allows writing, in the optical disc, of the image data when the optical disc has such display processing program pre-written therein; and wherein the controller inhibits writing of the image data when the optical includes data other than the display processing program pre-written therein in an appendable mode.