Dry process production of archival microform records from hard copy

A dry-process apparatus for producing archival microform records from light reflecting hard copy comprising in combination a dry-process mask film strip which is photosensitive to and imaged by light and dry developed by heat to provide imaged transparencies therein, an imaging and developing station, an image transferring station, means for moving the dry-process mask film strip to the imaging and developing station and to the image transferring station, means for applying light to the hard copy to be reflected thereby, means in the imaging and developing station for reducing the light image reflected from the hard copy to microimage size and applying the same to the dry-process mask film strip to produce microimages of the hard copy in the dry-process mask film strip when it is moved to the imaging and developing station, means in the imaging and developing station for heating the dry-process mask film strip when it is moved to the imaging and developing station for developing the microimages into microimage transparencies, a dry-process microform film which has archival properties and which is sensitive to and imaged and developed by short pulses of electromagnetic energy above a threshold value applied thereto to provide imaged records having archival properties, means in the image transferring station for receiving the dry-process microform film, means in the image transferring station for superimposing the dry-process microform film and the transparent microimaged dry-process mask film strip when it is moved to the image transferring station, and means in the image transferring station for applying short pulses of electromagnetic energy above a threshold value through the transparent microimaged dry-process mask film strip when it is moved to the image transferring station onto the dry-process microform film for providing in the dry-process microform film imaged microform records which conform to the transparent microimages in the dry-process mask film strip and which have archival properties.