Process and apparatus for the production of photographic prints from disk shaped masters

Apparatus for the production of photographic prints from disk-shaped print masters, comprising:

• a delivery magazine, a receiving magazine and at least one further magazine,
• a measuring station for measuring the photographic characteristics of the individual image locations on the master disks,
• a printing station for the photographic printing of the individual image locations on the master disks in accordance with the measured data determined in the measuring station, and
• transportion means for transporting the master disks cyclicly from the delivery magazine into a receiving location on a transport path, guiding them over said transport path to the measuring station and the printing station and further to a transfer location on the transport path and to place them from there into the receiving magazine, said transportion means including
• a magazine carrousel for rotating the delivery magazine, the receiving magazine and said further magazine in steps,
• automatic switching means for rotating the magazine carrousel, after the removal of the last master disk from the delivery magazine, by one step, wherein the delivery magazine, the receiving magazine and said further magazine change positions with respect to the receiving location and the transfer location of the transport path,
• follower transport means for transporting the master disks remaining on the transport path at the time of the rotation of the magazine carrousel to the receiving magazine that has moved from the transfer location to a new position by such rotation, and
• stacking means for placing transported master disks into the receiving magazine.