Photographic printer and method for monoline printing

A photographic printer comprising:

• a first pair of rollers for positioning and feeding photographic print paper from a photographic print paper supply magazine to a transporting path along a first direction;
• a second pair of rollers for drawing the photographic print paper along the transporting path in the first direction and in a second direction opposite to the first direction;
• driving means for rotatably driving the second pair of rollers in a forward direction to draw the photographic print paper in the first direction and in a reverse direction to draw the photographic print paper in the second direction;
• a chamber disposed between the first pair of rollers and the second pair of rollers for receiving a portion of the photographic print paper when the photographic print paper is drawn in the second direction;
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• a printing device for printing a photographic image on the photographic print paper when the photographic print paper is drawn in the second direction.

A printing method comprising the steps of:

• providing a photographic printer comprising first and second pairs of rollers defining a transporting path, a chamber disposed between the first and second pairs of rollers, a printing device, and a paper cutting device;
• positioning and feeding a photographic print paper from a photographic print paper supply magazine to the transporting path by rotating the first pair of rollers in a first direction;
• feeding a predetermined length of the photographic print paper equal to the length of the photographic image to be printed along the transporting path towards the printing device by rotating the first and second pairs of rollers in the first direction;
• feeding the photographic print paper along the transporting path by rotating the second pair of rollers in a second direction opposite to the first direction to position a portion of the photographic print paper in the chamber while simultaneously operating the printing device to print a photographic image on the predetermined length of photographic print paper;
• feeding the photographic print paper along the transporting path toward the paper cutting device by rotating the second pair of rollers in the first direction;
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• cutting the printed predetermined length of photographic print paper by means of the cutting device.