Photocopying – Projection printing and copying cameras – Identifying – composing – or selecting
Patent
1979-08-15
1981-10-06
Wintercorn, Richard A.
Photocopying
Projection printing and copying cameras
Identifying, composing, or selecting
355 77, G03B 2752
Patent
active
042932157
ABSTRACT:
Apparatus and method are disclosed for synchronously processing photographic prints and corresponding negatives through an inspection and packaging operation. Initially, a file of printing history data is compiled on magnetic storage in a central computer system when the prints are originally exposed in sequence of customer order by a photographic printer. After the photographic print material is processed, the prints and negatives are delivered to the inspection and packaging apparatus in roll form while the corresponding printing history is withdrawn from magnetic storage. The inspection and packaging apparatus chops the prints and places each print in an identifiable position upon a moving inspection belt. By beginning the process with the prints, the negatives and the history file in corresponding sequence, the negative-related history data is correlated to the identifiable positions in which corresponding prints are placed. Then, by referring to a position identifier, an inspector may select a print for correction and automatically have access to all history data for that negative--such as negative frame identification and original printing data. As corrections are made by the inspector, a new data file is constructed for makeovers belonging to each order. If an order has conforming prints, it is immediately packaged for shipment to the customer. For orders having nonconforming prints, the make-over data and corresponding negatives are returned to a printer which automatically corrects the observed nonconformity in the prints. The corrected prints are then combined with the remaining prints in the order and returned to the customer.
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Product Description of "Pakomp II Photopacker".
Product Description of "CX Systems", Equipment including Autopax II.
Photographic Processing "To Computerize or not-Do Finishers Still have a Choice", Robert S. Bremson II.
Rosborough, Jr. Robert S.
Wright, deceased Luther M.
Eastman Kodak Company
Wintercorn Richard A.
Woods D. M.
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