Photographic printer with apparatus for straightening curl of developed photographic film
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorKazuo Shiota
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Abstract
The leader of a developed photographic film advanced from a cassette is transported to a curl quantity measuring unit. The curl quantity measuring unit measures, as the curl quantity, a height of the end of the film leader maintained free. In accordance with the obtained curl quantity, the temperature and heating time of a heating roller are controlled to straighten the curl. The developed photographic film with the curl straightened is transported to a print station at which an image within a frame to be printed is projected to a color paper while pushing the peripheral portion of the frame.
Claims12
In a photographic printer in which a developed photographic film, coiled as a roll on a spool within a cassette, is pulled out of said cassette and transported to an exposure station for printing, apparatus for straightening said developed photographic film, said apparatus comprising:
- means for holding said cassette;
- means for measuring an amount of curl of said developed photographic film;
- means, disposed along a film passageway between said cassette holding means and said exposure station, for straightening a curl of said developed photographic film;
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- means for controlling an operation of said curl straightening means by providing a straightening quantity determined in accordance with said amount of curl.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.