Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Plural
Patent
1997-03-13
2000-02-29
Rutledge, D.
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Plural
355 27, 355 77, 396567, 396622, G03B 2744
Patent
active
060315962
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
TECHNICAL FIELD
The present invention relates to a photographic processing system for processing a photographic film for each order without splicing the photographic film to another photographic film. Further, the present invention relates to a method of determining a destination to which the photographic film is conveyed.
Herein, the photographic processing system means an assemblage including at least two apparatus for conducting developing an undeveloped photographic film, exposing an image on a developed photographic film to a photographic paper, cutting the developed photographic film, packaging the developed photographic film in a bag, developing the exposed photographic paper, cutting the developed photographic paper (a print), returning the developed photographic film to a return-destination, in particular, an assemblage in which these apparatus are integrated in one body or are linked by a conveying means.
TECHNICAL BACKGROUND
Generally, in many cases, a customer who is the owner of a photographic film wants either a photographic process of a so-called simultaneous print process in which a developing process for an undeveloped photographed photographic film and a printing process for obtaining a print by printing an image on the developed photographic film to a photographic paper are conducted, a so-called negative film printing process in which only a printing process for obtaining a print by printing an image on a developed photographic film to a photographic paper is conducted, or a so-called only developing process in which only a developing process for an undeveloped photographed photographic film is conducted, and orders such the processes for a photographic film process handling shop (hereinafter merely referred to as a handling shop).
Some handling shops conduct the above processes in their shop. On the other hand, some handling shops which receives a great number of orders from customers transfer the orders of customers to a so-called a large-scale photo-finishing laboratory that is a trader to conduct photographic processes in response to the orders of customers transferred from a plurality of handling shops. Further, as rare cases, a customer directly orders the photographic processes to the large-scale photo-finishing laboratory.
The handling shop passes the Large-Labo with the order of a customer over a bag in which an undeveloped film or a developed film of the customer is packaged. On the bag, the following information is recorded: the name of the customer, a phone number of the customer, a receiving date on which the order is received, a finishing date on which the ordered photographic process is completed, the name of a film maker, an ordered photographic process such as the simultaneous print process or the negative film printing process, an identified information of a film frame to which a printing process is requested in the case of the negative film printing process, print-number information of the film frame, a print size which herein means a width size of a photographic paper to which an image of the developed photographic film is printed, for example, E or L size, a surface quality of photographic paper such as glossy or silk, and so on. All of the above information is not necessarily recorded, and the above information may be selectably recorded as needed. Further, another information may be recorded. In the case that a customer directly orders photographic processes to a large-scale photo-finishing laboratory, the undeveloped photographed photographic film of the customer is packed in such the bag and is passed over to the large-scale photo-finishing laboratory. Generally, in such the bag, a number of pieces of undeveloped photographed photographic film or developed photographic film corresponding to one order of a customer is packed. Herein, the one order means a unit of orders by which a roll of photographic film is handled as the maximum. For example, a roll of 135-type film packaged in a 135-type film cartridge, or one or more pieces of cut-out photographic film s
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Hamasaki Masahiro
Ishii Hideo
Koboshi Shigeharu
Ogawa Minoru
Takeuchi Shigeru
Bierman Jordan B.
Konica Corporation
Rutledge D.
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