Color image recording apparatus

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention has been accomplished under these circumstances and has as an object providing a color image recording apparatus capable of fast, efficient and consistent outputting of color proofs that not only have good image quality but also ensure a high degree of similarity to the actual print.
The stated object of the invention can be attained by a color image recording apparatus with which one page of image created by assignment of at least one of graphics, characters and line drawings is reproduced in hard copy using a photosensitive material, which apparatus comprises; a raster image processor with which said image described in a computer language is expressed in bit maps to create scan image data; color management means by which the color/density of the scan image data generated with said raster image processor are corrected in accordance with the conditions for the reproduction of said image by the user of said hard copy; an exposing device with which the photosensitive material is scan exposed by multi-channel exposure to record a latent image in accordance with the scan image data corrected by said color management means; a developing device with which the photosensitive material having the latent image formed thereon by said exposing device is subjected to a development process so as to create a hard copy having said image reproduced thereon; an instrument which is provided in said developing device to measure the color/density of the image in said hard copy; and means for revising the conditions of exposure in said exposing device and/or the conditions of correction in said color management means in accordance with the result of measurement with said instrument.
Preferably, said photosensitive material is a silver halide photosensitive material which requires thermal development and brought into a superposed relationship with an image-receiving material such that an image is transferred on to said image-receiving material to produce a hard copy which has said image reproduced thereon