High speed index printer
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsJoseph A. Manico, David L. Patton, Thomas R. Roule
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Abstract
An apparatus that produces digitally generated index prints and normal optical prints as part of the normal printing operation, without requiring the negatives to be cut and handled separately. The foregoing is accomplished by using the exposure determination and subject classification data generated for the normal optical printing operation to rapidly provide the low resolution digital data for creating the individual index print images, during the normal optical printing operation. While the digital images are being created, each digital image is being simultaneously corrected for its own exposure requirement.
Claims8
An apparatus for exposing digital images and optical images on the same web of photosensitive media, said apparatus characterized by:
- means for scanning photographic images, that appear on a photographic media, to create a digital representation of the photographic images;
- means coupled to said scanning means for optically exposing, via a first printing path with a lens and light source controlled by said scanning means, the photographic images scanned by said scanning means on the web of the photosensitive media;
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- means coupled to said scanning means for exposing a digital image via a second printing path, completely separate from said first printing path, on the web of photosensitive media by utilizing the digital representation of the photographic images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.