US 5,289,230 A · Price printer and photographic-film carrier for photographic processing system

Abstract

A price printer for printing prices relative to photographic processing, which is suitable for a printer-processor for printing image recorded on photographic films onto photographic papers. The price printer is disposed in a position where each image printed on the photographic paper is detected. The number of defective prints selected by detection is input by an operator. The number of the defective prints is subtracted from the total number of prints which is automatically input from the printer-processor to calculate the number of prints to be delivered to a customer and compute a print price to be printed. Therefore, a proper statement of delivery can be made at a time and the efficiency of work can be improved. A photographic-film carrier capable of automatically detecting information about the length of a processed photographic film can be provided. The price printer can read the length information so as to determine the kind of the photographic film and automatically set and print a development price. A process for determining the development price by the operator can be eliminated and a further improvement in the work efficiency can be made.

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Dependent claims

A price printer suitable for use with a photographic processing system for printing images which have been recorded on photographic films onto photographic papers, said price printer being used to print prices relative to photographic processing, said price printer comprising:

storing means for storing therein both a unit price of development of the photographic films and the number of developed photographic films and both a unit price of printing of the photographic paper and the number of prints;
inputting means for changing at least one of the unit price of development, the number of developed photographic films, the unit price of printing and the number of the prints;
computing means for computing a development price, a print price and the total of these prices based on the unit price of development, the number of developed photographic films, the unit price of printing and the number of the prints;
and
printing means for printing said development price, said print price and the total of these prices all of which have been computed by said computing means.

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A price printer system suitable for use with a photographic processing system for printing images which have been recorded on photographic films onto photographic papers, and including a price printer used to print prices relative to photographic processing, said price printer comprising:

reading means for reading information about the photographic film which has been processed in said photographic processing system, and the number of prints;
storing means for storing therein the information about the photographic film, and the number of the prints both of which have been read by said reading means, and a preset unit price of printing;
inputting means for changing the unit price of the printing and for inputting the number of defective prints which have been detected at the time of detection of the images printed on the photographic papers;
setting means for setting a development price based on said information about the photographic film;
computing means for computing a print price based on the value obtained by subtracting the number of said defective prints input by said inputting means from the number of the prints, which has been stored in said storing means, and the unit price of printing and for calculating the total of the print price and the development price;
and
printing means for printing said development price set by said setting means, said print price computed by said computing means and the total of said development price and said print price.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Price printer and photographic-film carrier for photographic processing system

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Price printer and photographic-film carrier for photographic processing system

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