Abstract: The image processing circuit essentially includes an image data input portion, an image processing portion, an image data output portion, an image memory composed of a hard disk drive etc., a central processing unit (CUP), an image editing portion, an external interface portion. Based on the determination result of the laser recording status determination by the CPU, an LCU also serving as a mirror motor control device, stops or retards the drives of driving motors, one by one, in the order of their completion of laser recording. The image processing circuit may further has a mode manager for checking the usage frequencies of the first most processing mode in which the input image information is image processed as color image information and the second processing mode in which the input image information is processed as monochrome image information. Moreover, the image processing portion may further has an original discriminating portion for determining the color type of an original.