Photo-sensitive recording medium cartridge for use with image recording apparatus
AssigneeBrother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorTakakuni Sonoda
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Abstract
In a photo-sensitive recording medium cartridge comprising a housing and a photo-sensitive recording medium accommodated therein, information is provided on an outer surface of a peripheral wall of the housing. The information contains data capable of being automatically read out. The data is representative of exposure, developing and fixing conditions of the recording medium. An image recording apparatus comprises a reader unit for reading out the data contained in the information to generate signals respectively indicative of the exposure, developing and fixing conditions, and a control unit operative in response to the signals for controlling an exposure unit, a developing unit and a fixing unit.
Claims8
A color image recording apparatus utilizing a photo-sensitive recording medium and a set of a plurality of color-decomposed mask original plates, each mask original plate being provided with image information containing data as to what color the mask original plate corresponds, which comprises:
- reader means for successively reading out the data contained in the image information provided respectively, on said mask original plates, to generate signals indicative of the respective data;
- said mask original plates being successively superposed upon said photo-sensitive recording medium;
- exposure means operative in response to said signals from said reader means for exposing said photo-sensitive recording medium successively to lights with their respective wavelengths in conformity respectively with said mask original plates which are successively superposed upon said photo-sensitive recording medium, thereby forming color-decomposed latent images corresponding to the respective mask original plates, onto said photo-sensitive recording medium;
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- developing means for developing a color image in accordance with said color-decomposed latent images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.