A total simulation system which can simulate the color reproduction process of color photographic images precisely and can give “hard-copied” images to be evaluated visually has been developed. This system is able to be adopted to various applications on color images because of the following characteristics.
(1) The spectral reflectance of the objects for each of the pixels in the scene can be measured.
(2) The photographic color reproduction process can be totally simulated by a computer.
(3) The results of the sirnulation are output as actual color images by a laser color printer.
