Abstract: A media buffer capable of buffering two lengths of media, is fed a first length of media from an imagesetter at a first speed, and releases the media to a processor at a second speed. An input media sensor senses the media entering the buffer. Drive rollers take up the leading edge of the media at the imagesetter speed. Shortly thereafter a signal from an output media sensor located between the drive rollers and the processor, opens an input door to an input bin and stops the drive rollers. The incoming media continues to be fed by the imagesetter forming a first slack loop within the input bin. The imagesetter signals the buffer that the media has been cut, thereby actuating drive rollers to advance the media at the processor speed to a pair of rollers in the processor. A signal from the processor sensor opens an output door to an output bin. The drive rollers increase speed to transport the first piece of media from the input bin to the output bin thereby forming a second slack loop.

Abstract: A media buffer capable of buffering two lengths of media, is fed a first length of media from an imagesetter at a first speed, and releases the media to a processor at a second speed. An input media sensor senses the media entering the buffer. Drive rollers take up the leading edge of the media at the imagesetter speed. Shortly thereafter a signal from an output media sensor located between the drive rollers and the processor, opens an input door to an input bin and stops the drive rollers. The incoming media continues to be fed by the imagesetter forming a first slack loop within the input bin. The imagesetter signals the buffer that the media has been cut, thereby actuating drive rollers to advance the media at the processor speed to a pair of rollers in the processor. A signal from the processor sensor opens an output door to an output bin. The drive rollers increase speed to transport the first piece of media from the input bin to the output bin thereby forming a second slack loop.

Abstract: A method is taught for automatically adjusting the balance coefficients of printer exposure determination algorithms based on an examination of the corrections made by the operator when reprinting negatives from unsatisfactory prints. The adjustment is based on the average correction and the standard deviation of the corrections made to each balance coefficient of the exposure determination equation.

Abstract: A snap-fit strobe housing, including mating first and second housing sections with a first latching arrangement carried on the interior of an exterior wall of the first section and a second latching arrangement carried by the second section in position to engage the first latching arrangement to prohibit separation of the sections when such sections are pulled in a given plane generally parallel to the wall. The first latching arrangement is defined by a member extending from the interior of the wall with a portion of the member in overlapping relationship and interiorly of the second latching arrangement. The second latching arrangement engages and latches the overlapping portion whereby such second latching arrangement is retained in continuous engagement with the overlapping portion when the wall is pulled relative to the housing sections at an angle to the given plane.

Abstract: A compact, elongated strobe-light apparatus is provided for use with a photographic camera of the folding-reflex type having a collapsible viewing device. The strobe-light apparatus includes an attaching arrangement by which it can easily be mounted on and removed from the camera. The attaching arrangement includes a flash plug mounted near the apparatus's forward end and a pair of spaced apart flexible fingers mounted near its rear end for releasably gripping the rear end of the camera's viewing device. The configuration of the flash plug in combination with the "gripping" fingers permits the apparatus to be attached to the camera either by first sliding its rear end into engagement with a cover of the viewing device and thereafter rotating the apparatus to insert its plug into the camera's flash socket or, alternatively, by first snap-connecting its rear end to the viewing device's cover and then rotating the apparatus to insert the flash plug.