There is disclosed an apparatus comprising: an input circuit for inputting at least one of the coded character information, coded figure information, and bit image information; a memory to store an image; an image developing circuit for developing the information input by the input circuit into the image memory with respect to one output color component; and an image forming circuit to form one output color component image in accordance with the value of the image data in the memory, wherein a color image can be formed by repeating the image development and the image formation with respect to a plurality of output color components.