PURPOSE: To avoid the deviation of actual print position and desired print position due to a delay of operation by storing a position of the picture signal to be printed among picture signals recorded on a magnetic tape, rewinding the tape by preset prescribed quantity and selecting the reproduction state.

CONSTITUTION: When a print start button 15 is depressed, a magnetic recording and reproducing device control section 16 uses a running position storage section 17 to store counter information from a device section 13. A magnetic tape 11 rewound by the control of the magnetic recording and reproducing device control section 10 after the print start button is depressed is rewound by preset quantity and the reproduction state is caused and a print instruction is outputted at a position by preset several pictures from the stored print start position and then the system is stopped. A printer control section 23 receiving a print instruction stores a video image onto a video signal storage section 21 while being fed by a time of the magnetic tape 11 by preset several pictures and the print is started by a print device section 22.