PURPOSE: To provide an ink film display device for a printer which can prolong the life of a sensor section and realize intuitively the kind of ink film in use and the like.

CONSTITUTION: A device comprises a photosensor 2 for sensing the information of the kind of ink film out of the ink film in use, an information discrimination section 11 for analyzing the information from the photosensor 2 and discriminating the kind and color of the ink film and a display section 12 with a plurality of lamp display circuits for lamp displaying the coloring corresponding to the coloring information discriminated on the information discriminating section 11.