PRINTING CHARACTERISTIC DISPLAY EQUIPMENT FOR DISPLAYING IMAGE DATA ON A DISPLAY ALLOWING THE USER TO DETERMINE PRINTING CHARACTERISTICS USING PRINT CHARACTERISTIC MARKERS WITHOUT HAVING TO PRINT THE IMAGE

Printing format display equipment for displaying image data on a CRT display. The image data includes different parts with varying printing formats, and for reading printing formats for different areas of the image data from the image data itself and displaying those printing formats on the CRT display at positions corresponding to the different areas of the image data, which is already being displayed on the CRT display, allowing the user to accurately determine the printing formats without having to actually print the image.