With the definition of the Advanced Photo System a new photographic product- the index print- has been created. This paper describes the AGFA Index Print System (IPS), i.e. the system architecture, the system operation and the easy system handling by the operator. The images are directly taken from the light path of a high speed printer (MSP) by a modified RGB video camera simultaneous to the first order prints. After processing by a dedicated composer board the images are placed into a flexible, film length dependent and customer dependent layout and printed via a CRT printer onto standard color negative paper. The image quality is comparable to that of the first order prints. Using a two- memories operation keeps the performance of the high speed printer unchanged. A new ‘Total Batch Scanning’-method to automatically control the gray balance of the index prints is discussed.