Image recording apparatus
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorNaoyuki Morita
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Abstract
There is provided an image recording apparatus comprising a light-sensitive material supply section, a light-sensitive material transport mechanism, an image recording section, a cutter, a distributor, a scan/transport section and an exposing unit, wherein a light-sensitive material supplied as cut sheets is distributed in a plurality of rows and digitally exposed at a time for a plurality of images and the cut sheets of the exposed light-sensitive material are delivered to a subsequent developing apparatus by the light-sensitive material transport mechanism. The productivity of the digital photoprinter is improved when a multiplicity of the cut sheets of the light-sensitive material are exposed.
Claims21
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- a light-sensitive material supply section for accommodating an elongated roll-shape light-sensitive material and supplying a light-sensitive material having been cut as cut sheets of a specified length;
- a light-sensitive material transport mechanism for transporting the cut sheets of th light-sensitive material along a specified transport passage;
- an image recording section provided in the specified transport passage of the light-sensitive material transport mechanism for digitally exposing the cut sheets of said light-sensitive material for a plurality of images;
- a cutter provided in said light-sensitive material supply section for cutting the elongated light-sensitive material to the cut sheets of the light-sensitive material;
- a distributor provided in the specified transport passage for distributing the cut sheets of the light-sensitive material in a plurality of rows;
- scan/transport means provided in the image recording section for scanning and transporting the cut sheets of the light-sensitive material distributed in the plurality of rows;
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- an exposing unit provided in the image record section for digitally exposing the cut sheets of the light-sensitive material at a time for the plurality of images,
- wherein the light-sensitive material supplied as said cut sheets is distributed in the plurality of rows and digitally exposed at a time for said plurality of images and the exposed light-sensitive material is delivered to a subsequent developing apparatus by said light-sensitive material transport mechanism.
An image recording apparatus, comprising:
- a magazine for storing a roll of a recording medium;
- a cutter that receives a portion of said recording medium and cuts said portion of said recording medium to produce a plurality of cut sheets of said recording medium;
- a distributor that receives a row of said cut sheets and distributes said row of said cut sheets into a plurality of rows of said cut sheets;
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- an exposing unit that receives said plurality of rows of said cut sheets and exposes said plurality of rows of said cut sheets to form a plurality of images.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.