A color video printer, for printing color video signals, includes a data conversion means (60) that has an internal memory that receives digitised input chrominance signals and stores pixel data at addresses corresponding to the raster scan of an interlaced video field. The data can be read out in sequential rows by a monitor address means (78) to provide a signal for display on a monitor. Also, the data is be read out in columns to be fed to a memory (68) for printing column by column. Each column is read out by a printing address generating means (76) during the vertical blanking pulse between fields of the scan. R.G.B. data is read out column by column sequentially during successive blanking pulses.
