Abstract: A cleaning structure for an out-of-liquid conveying portion whose object is to facilitate detachment and attachment of a cleaning nozzle unit from and to a crossover rack, and to hold cleaning nozzles in predetermined positions suitable for the out-of-liquid conveying portion in a state in which the cleaning nozzle unit has been mounted to the crossover rack. In order to mount the cleaning nozzle unit to the crossover rack, the cleaning nozzles are made to penetrate through through-holes defined in one of side walls of the crossover rack. In this state, an interlocking member is elastically flexed so as to be inserted into an interlocking hole. After completion of its insertion of the interlocking member, a hook is brought into engagement with an upper edge of the interlocking hole by elastic recovery of the interlocking member. As a result, a case can be mounted to the side wall.

Abstract: An apparatus for arraying sheets of photosensitive material provided in a film printing/developing apparatus. A sorting guide is provided for selectively feeding the sheets of photosensitive material according to their size. The sorted sheets are fed further either in a one-line arrangement or in a two-line zigzag arrangement to an upper outlet or to a lower outlet by guides. Along the path to the lower outlet are mounted one-way rollers and high-speed rollers, so that the sheets of photosensitive material in a two-line zigzag arrangement will be fed at high speed. The sheets of photosensitive material thus fed out of the lower outlet are overlapped one upon another on the pan by means of a conveyor in the order of the frames in one roll of film.

Abstract: A photographic processing apparatus includes a first magazine for feeding a first sensitive material to a development station, a second magazine for feeding a second sensitive material in a direction at an right angle to the feeding direction of the first sensitive material, a first cutter for separating a first sensitive sheet from the first sensitive material, a second cutter for separating a second sensitive sheet from the second sensitive material. A conveying pass line conveys the first and second sensitive sheets separated by their respective first and second cutters to the development station. A transfer shifting device mounted at the intersection of the feeding direction of the first sensitive material and the feeding direction of the second sensitive material for transfers the second sensitive sheet to the pass line.

Abstract: A photographic printing apparatus in which images recorded on a photographic film are printed onto a photographic paper as printed images of print sizes of different aspect ratios and in which a printed photographic paper is conveyed distances corresponding to the print sizes and is cut. Indications symbolizing the print sizes are recorded at the photographic paper. The print sizes are identified by detection of the indications. Areas of the photographic paper in which the indications are detected based on identified print sizes are controlled. Mistakes in cutting can thereby be prevented.

Abstract: A processing machine to process information recorded on a photographic film to be processed in the form of plural information. When information contents relating to the same processing item are recorded both in the form of information that is possible to rewrite and in the form of information that is impossible to rewrite, the photographic film is processed based on the form of information that is possible to rewrite.

Abstract: A device for application to photographic printing machines, by which sheets of light-sensitive paper cut from strip are advanced and positioned at a print station and then transferred to a successive developing machine, wherein the device (5) affording the printing surface is capable of traversing movement in the transverse direction, supported slidably on suitable guides and translated along the guides by drive means activated by means controlled in turn by means capable of sensing and determining an exact selected position, all of which conventional, the alternating transverse movements of the device (5) affording the printing surface being such that sheets of light-sensitive paper (A1, B1, C1, D1) exhibiting width less than half the working width of the maximum print size handled by the machine are transferred after printing directly to the successive developing machine arranged in alternation and in co-ordinated sequence on two or more parallel conveying lanes.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus having improved air flow and/or handling of toner or other debris between a fixing device and an image carrier. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the completeness and effectiveness of an air exhaust system of an image forming apparatus is improved by utilizing a flow improvement board which is located between the image carrier and the fixing device. The flow improvement board can be mounted upon the fixing device and extends downwardly beyond the fixing device. The flow improvement board provides a more regular flow of air toward the exhaust device thereby improving the effectiveness and completeness of the exhaustion of air. In addition, in accordance with another aspect of the invention, a magnet can be provided upon the board or associated with the fixing device, with the magnet including a plurality of poles which alternately extend along the widthwise direction of the mixing device.

Abstract: A duplicating camera, especially, a diffusion transfer type duplicating camera including an exposure box in which a scanner for scanning across the surface of an original in the form of a slit is incorporated and a transfer box in which a sheet of photosensitive material is exposed to light so that a set of slit images from the exposure box can be formed on the photosensitive material, and in which the image recorded on the photosensitive material is transferred to an image receiving material. These exposure and transfer boxes are arranged in an adjustable manner so that the scan axis of the scanning unit can be aligned with the transfer axis of the photosensitive material. In the exposure stage, an exposure table on which the photosensitive material is transferred is positioned above conveyor rollers disposed on both sides of the exposure table, so that a nominal rise occurs in the photosensitive material traveling above the exposure table.

Abstract: A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method comprises the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

Abstract: A print processing method used in a photographic printer which can print images on a negative film which have different aspect ratios. The print processing method comprises the steps of judging the aspect ratio of each of the images printed on photographic paper, and printing cumulative numbers of prints of each aspect ratio onto the photographic paper of a final printing. The number of prints per aspect ratio can be easily known, and the cost of the prints can be calculated more efficiently.

Abstract: The slit exposure process camera keeps a photosensitive material flat in the exposure position, and further makes a useless area on the material smaller. The apparatus includes: a pair of feeding rollers 25 disposed upstream from the exposure position for conveying a photosensitive material PM; a transport guide 61 with a flat surface arranged downstream from the rollers 25; and a pressing plate 70 with sufficient elasticity and abrasion resistance for pressing the photosensitive material PM downward. The photosensitive material PM thus pressed runs in contact with a surface of the transport guide 61 and is thereby kept sufficiently flat. Since the process camera does not include another pair of rollers downstream from the exposure position, image reproduction is not disturbed by nipping of the photosensitive material with the downstream rollers, and an unusable area on the end of the photosensitive material is made relatively small.

Abstract: An image frame detecting apparatus of the present invention is provided with a light emitting portion provided in one of the respective sides of a guide path for a carrying photographic film, and including a light emitting diode (LED) array having a plurality of LEDs disposed in the transverse direction of the photographic film, a light receiving portion provided in the other of the respective sides of the guide path for the photographic film, and receiving light emitted from the light emitting portion, and a detecting portion for detecting an image frame recorded on the photographic film depending upon the quantity of light received by the light receiving portion. The LEDs has a reduced fluctuation and a reduced range of temperature change so that transmission density of the photographic film can be accurately detected. An image frame and a base portion of the photographic film can be surely discriminated.

Abstract: Successive exposed photographic films are connected, either individually or in groups of two or more, to discrete sheet-like leaders which are transported along an elongated first path extending through the baths and the dryer of a developing unit. The leaders are separated from the respective webs downstream of the developing unit but upstream of a copying unit for developed films, and the separated leaders are directed into a second path to be gathered in a receptacle. The separation involves severing the leading end of each web close behind the respective leader, and the thus separated webs are caused to continue to advance along the first path through a magazine and thence into the copying unit.

Abstract: A storage for strip material is provided with an inlet for the strip material into the internal space of the housing and an outlet from the internal space of the housing. Inside the housing, holding means are provided which accumulate the strip material above the holding means where the weight of the strip material is less than a threshold value, and which release the strip material downward if the weight of the strip material exceeds the threshold value.

Abstract: A paper transporting device for a photographic printer. A pulse motor starts rotating during a magazine setting operation. The rotation of the pulse motor is transmitted to a pair of feed rollers through a pin-clutch mechanism and a paper feed gear train. Immediately before a paper magazine is completely attached to the photographic printer, the feed rollers nip the leading end of photographic paper and pull the photographic paper out of the paper magazine. When changing the paper magazine, a solenoid is turned on to change over the pin-clutch mechanism from the paper feed gear train to a paper rewind gear train. Thereafter, the pulse motor is rotated in reverse, so as to rotate a winding shaft of the paper magazine through the pin-clutch mechanism and the paper rewind gear train. An unexposed portion of the photographic paper remaining in the photographic printer is thus wound back into the paper magazine.

Abstract: A total photo-lab system for automatic printing processing, cutting, sorting and enveloping. Each of a plurality of films spliced into a film roll is provided with a label printed with a respective ID number bar code. The same ID number bar code is provided on a respective envelope. During printing, the ID number of each film set in a printing position is read out so as to record a punch code indicative of the same ID number on a photographic paper besides the first print frame made from that film. The printed film is reserved until the corresponding print frames have been processed. The ID number of the processed photographic paper is read and compared with the ID number of the reserved film. When these ID numbers are identical, the film is cut and inserted into a film sheath sheet, whereas the photographic paper is cut into individual prints, and are sorted into each set of prints belonging to the same film.

Abstract: An automatically controlled film packaging system which is capable of exposing necessary data as a latent image onto the edges of pre-used film according to the input signal of a unit length required for the merchandise cutting the film into the unit length and taking the film up on a selected patrone, comprising a center processing unit which controls the system automatically when the unit length required is shifted, without any manual re-setting but only by inputting a new unit length of the film required for the merchandise to be produced.

Abstract: A band of exposed and developed photographic film is transported longitudinally along a predetermined path. The film carries a series of images and each of the images has a pair of edges which are spaced longitudinally of the band and extend transversely of the latter. Transverse, strip-shaped segments of the band are photoelectrically scanned to detect abrupt density changes associated with the edges of the images. In addition, the band is sensed at a predetermined location of its path in order to ascertain the length of the band travelling by the predetermined location. The density and length data are sent to a microprocessor which uses the data to assign a position coordinate to each detected edge and its corresponding image. The position coordinates represent the positions of the images longitudinally of the band.

Abstract: An apparatus for transporting a photographic paper having an epicyclic gear clutch mechanism for transmitting the rotation of a motor selectively to a magazine and a pair of nip rollers. In auto-loading of the photographic paper, the nip rollers are rotated by the motor to feed the leading end of the photographic paper to the exposure station. If a magazine is exchanged before the whole photographic paper is used, the photographic paper is cut at a position upstream of the last picture frame. In the first paper winding operation, the rotation of the motor is transmitted via the epicyclic gear clutch mechanism to the magazine to wind the unprinted portion of the photographic paper into the magazine. When the leading end of the photographic paper is returned back near the tip rollers, the epicyclic gear clutch mechanism is coupled to the nip rollers. In a second paper winding operation, the nip rollers are rotated reversely until the photographic paper detaches from the nip rollers.

Abstract: A picture recording apparatus such as may be used with a rolled sheet material in which marks on finished pictures due to pressure exerted on the recording material by conveying rollers when the apparatus is in the stopped state are eliminated. When picture recording operations are to be carried out, multiple pairs of conveying rollers are engaged with one another to convey the recording material through various processing stations. When picture recording operations are halted, such as when the apparatus is turned off, at least one of the conveying rollers which would cause marking of finished pictures are disengaged from one another.

Abstract: Apparatus for automatically spooling output media from a printer including a web supply of recording medium, a generally circular baffle arrangement for directing the recording medium into a tubular form, a drive roller for bidirectionally driving the recording medium into an out of the generally circular baffle arrangement, and means for applying a tensioning force on the recording medium between the baffle arrangement and the drive roller. The tensioning force is substantially the same whether the recording medium is being driven into or being driven out of the baffle arrangment and the surface speed of the recording medium is determined by the drive roller.

Abstract: An image reproducing device includes a container for storing a strip-like photosensitive material in a condition that the photosensitive material is rolled, the photosensitive material having a mark at a predetermined length from a final end thereof. Rollers pull out the rolled photosensitive material from the container and convey the photosensitive material. A cutter cuts the conveyed photosensitive material into a sheet-like photosensitive sheets one by one. A pair of developing rollers roll the cut photosensitive sheet put together with a transfer sheet between which a developer-containing pod is interposed. A detector detects the marking of the conveyed photosensitive material, and a controller inhibits the cutter from cutting the photosensitive material in a case where the detector detects the mark of the conveyed photosensitive material.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus which is disclosed herein includes a containing section for containing an image recording material which is wound in a rolled form and a body in which the image recording material is utilized for recording an image.

Abstract: A method of disposing of the leading end of a roll of photosensitive medium in which a leading end portion of the photosensitive medium that gets fogged due to exposure to light is cut and discharged from the processing route of the photosensitive medium before the development process; a first sheet of the photosensitive medium is cut in a predetermined size, including a leading end portion that gets fogged due to exposure to light, the part of this sheet which has not become fogged being exposed to a test pattern; or a first sheet of the photosensitive medium is cut in a size determined by summing the size of a leading end portion that gets fogged due to exposure to light and the size of a predetermined area of exposure.

Abstract: A media transport apparatus including a supply of recording medium, collecting means for the recording medium, a drive roller for moving the recording medium from the supply to the collecting means along a transport path, and a cutter for severing the recording medium into sections. The cutter is located between the drive roller and the collecting means and is moved in a direction substantially transverse to the direction of movement of the recording medium during severing. Deflectable fingers define a portion of the transport path in interference relationship with the cutter and are readily displaced by the cutter while continuing to provide a rigid guide for the recording medium.

Abstract: A drying control method in a photograph processing apparatus for controlling the drying conditions through feed control of a photosensitive material in a photograph processing apparatus which is comprised of a printing section to print an image on the photosensitive material, a processor section to perform developing, fixing and water washing processes for the photosensitive material on which the image has been printed, and a drying section to dry the photosensitive material having been processed in said processor section. A time interval of feeding sheets of the photosensitive material into the drying section is changed dependent on an area of the photosensitive material to be processed. The proper drying process can thus be performed regardless of the processed area of the photosensitive material.

Abstract: A transport apparatus for transporting media in various size sheets processed at a first processing station to a second processing station. The apparatus comprises, as main components thereof, a plurality of trays disposed between the first and second processing stations, each for accommodating media sheets of one size stacked one upon another, a first transport device for receiving media from the first processing station and transporting the media to the trays, and a second transport device associated with the trays for successively transporting the media from the trays to the second processing station.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming enlarged exposures of film negatives is provided. The apparatus is adapted to be coupled to the housing of a conventional photo-processing machine without requiring permanent modification of the conventional machine. The apparatus includes a pair of magazines, one magazine of which houses a roll of unexposed paper. The unexposed paper is fed from the one magazine, vertically through the apparatus and into the other magazine. A mirror placed in the conventional machine, reflects a focussed light beam that has passed through a negative. The light beam is directed into the apparatus so that it impinges on a portion of the unexposed paper passing therethrough thereby forming an exposure of the negative on the paper. Drive motors automatically advance the paper from the one magazine to the other, upon exposure of the negative on the paper. A cutter is provided for cutting the paper when a complete reel of negatives has been exposed.

Abstract: A picture display comprising elemental prints having enlarged divisional images with separation arranged in a matrix on a print holder so as to form a single picture, and a printing method and apparatus for making the picture strips as the elemental prints from a single frame of an original film. The printing apparatus has a printing stage movable in two directions perpendicularly intersecting each other so as sequentially to place divisions into which the image frame of the original film is notionally divided in a matrix in printing position for exposing a photographic paper to enlarged divisional images of the divisions in order by column or row, thereby making a picture strip with a row or a column of the enlarged divisional images formed thereon.

Abstract: In a printing apparatus, a relatively long film having a photosensitive surface composed of photosensitive microcapsules is withdrawn from a supply spool and selectively exposed to light to form a photographed film frame prior to being passed through a nip between urged-together press rollers and then wound onto a take-up spool, sheets of developing paper are delivered one at a time by a paper supply roller from a stack of the sheets for passage between the press rollers with each delivered sheet facing a respective exposed area of the film so as to be pressed together therewith, and a roller drive assembly including a first reversible motor operative in first and second directions in printing and rewinding modes, respectively, a first transmission including a first one-way clutch through which the first motor drives the paper supply roller means only when the first motor operates in the first direction in the printing mode, a second transmission including a second one-way clutch through which the supply spoo

Abstract: A device for reproducing an image of an original by using photosensitive material and transfer material for receiving an image formed on the photosensitive material. The original is optionally scanned to produce an optical signal which represents an image of the original, and the photosensitive material is exposed in accordance with the optical signal from the scanner together with the movement of the photosensitive material in synchronization with the scanning. A developer device superposes the exposed photosensitive material on the transfer material and spreads a developer between the superposed photosensitive material and transfer material so as to reproduce the image on the transfer material.

Abstract: An apparatus 10 for printing and processing photographs is disclosed. The printer-processor has a printing unit 11 and a processing unit 12. A light source 18 directs light 64 toward light-sensitive photographic printing material 22. The negative 19 is held by a rotatable negative carrier 20. The optics 21 for the printer-processor 10 are mounted upon a rotatable lens carousel assembly 63 having a plurality of lens decks 65. The printing material 22 is supported by one or two platens 23, 96, each having a plurality of vacuum grooves 174 to hold the print material 22. A transport system 132 conveys the print material 22 from the platen 23, 96 to the entrance 29 of the processor 12. The transport system 132 includes a pre-accumulation conveyor system 147 and a post-accumulation conveyor system 149, between which is a holding area 40 and accumulation system 148 for accumulating exposed print material 22.

Abstract: An apparatus for and a method of conveying a printing paper imprinted with an image by a printing device to a developing apparatus. The conveying apparatus includes a cutter for cutting the image printed printing paper for every image, and contacting and releasing apparatus for raising and conveying a piece of the cut printing paper and for releasing a holding condition of the printing paper. In consequence, a plurality of the pieces of the cut printing paper can be maintained between the printing apparatus and the developing apparatus without overlapping thereof.

Abstract: An apparatus for forming an image comprising a unit for forming a selectively cured image on a light-receiving sheet coated with a layer of microcapsules containing colorless dye and photopolymerization agent by exposing the sheet to light, an image forming unit for forming a colored image on an image-receiving sheet coated with a layer of a developing material by laying the image-receiving sheet on top of the light-receiving sheet and compressing these sheets, the light-receiving sheet being provided in a roll sheet form and the image-receiving sheet being provided in either a cut-sheet form or roll sheet form, and a cutter disposed on the downstream side of the compression portion for cutting the light-receiving sheet and image-receiving sheet.

Abstract: A slit exposure type color image forming apparatus having a first conveying device for transferring a photosensitive material to an exposure position, a second conveying device for transferring the photosensitive material from the exposure position to another position, an exposure unit adapted to expose an image on a silver halide photosensitive material while transporting the photosensitive material by the second conveying device, and a processor adapted to form a visible image on the photosensitive material. The image on the photosensitive material exposed on the basis of a signal from a detecting member, which is adapted to detect the passage of the photosensitive material. The first conveying device is released from the photosensitive material clamping force while the material is being exposed.

Abstract: An image reproducing device in which a photosensitive film cartidge, a transfer sheet cassette and a developer pod receptacle are mounted separately, and a peel-apart type film is used. The kinds of photosensitive film, transfer film and pod are detected to prevent an incorrect combination and to inhibit the operation of the device. In other embodiments, some of the elements are mounted together. The elements are marked with a code which is sensed.

Abstract: A thermal developing and transferring apparatus in which light-sensitive material on which an image is recorded is adhered to an image receiving material and is wound around the outer peripheral surface of a heating drum to effect thermal development and to transfer the developed image to the image receiving material. The light-sensitive sheet and the image receiving material are supplied to the periphery of the heating drum after which is curved with predetermined curvatures, thereby being prevented from shifting away from each other during transfer owing to the difference between winding radius with which the two material are wound around the heating drum.

Abstract: A printer-processor has a printing section for exposing images onto a part of a strip of photographic paper, a cutter for separating the exposed part from the strip to form a sheet, and a processing section for developing the sheet. After one printing, the strip is transported by feeding rollers to set an unexposed part of the strip in an exposure state while simultaneously releasing the exposed part from the exposure stage. This transportation is carried out, not immediately after the printing, but at least after a predetermined period from the time the previously-exposed part was cut so that the strip does not overtake the sheet which is being released into the processing section by another feeding rollers. Further, when or just before the strip is transported, releasing means releases nipping of the latter feeding rollers as not to disturb the transportation of the strip.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus which comprises a paper feeding device capable of feeding roll papers including a plurality of widths and a cutter for cutting them in fixed sizes, and discriminates to perform either of the lateral cutting of said roll paper with the direction of width taken as a long side or the longitudinal cutting thereof with the direction of width taken as a short side, by the width of the roll paper and an image signal designating the image length determined by the document length in the feeding direction and the specified copy magnification, and can automatically perform fixed-sized longitudinal cutting or lateral cutting of the roll paper on the basis of the result of that discrimination.

Abstract: An elongated photographic paper wound in the form of a roll is drawn from the front end portion thereof, an image is exposed an it in a printing portion, and is cut by a cutter. After it has been cut, the front end portion of the photographic paper is returned to the printing portion, and parts of the photographic paper are covered by a pair of mask heads. These mask heads are disposed above the photographic paper when a margin-less image is printed and when image is printed. However, in the case of a margin-less print, a larger area of the image is covered than the area in the case of a margin-provided print.

Abstract: An imaging device employing a continuous recording sheet which carries thereon a plurality of photo and pressure sensitive microcapsules. Each microcapsule contains therein a dye precursor and a photo-curable resin. By exposing the recording sheet to an optical image, a corresponding latent image is formed thereon with hardened and unhardened microcapsules. The unhardened microcapsules are ruptured by a pressure-developing means and dye precursors streamed out of the ruptured microcapsules react to developer coated on a separate cut-sheet type developer sheet. In order to prevent the pressure-developing means from being polluted by components of microcapsules of the recording sheet, all over the portion of the recording sheet, on which an optical image is not exposed, is fully exposed to a light to harden substantially whole microcapsules carried thereon.

Abstract: Integrated automatic machine for simultaneously and continuously effecting the development of photographic films F and the printing and development of photographic prints E, in a single casing.According to the invention, the film development section H of the negative developing unit A and paper development section G of the printing unit B are disposed side by side. The exposure section C of the printing unit B is divided in two parts disposed on two said sections C and H, the image to be reproduced being reflected by mirrors.

Abstract: A thermal developing photo-sensitive material is conveyed from a supplying roll to a winding roll along a straight path. Linear optical exposure is provided to the photo-sensitive material. An image forming solvent is applied to the photo-sensitive material along this straight path. An image receiving material is combined with the photo-sensitive material, and the photo-sensitive material and the image receiving material are heated, also along this straight path, so that the image formed on the photo-sensitive material is transferred onto the image receiving material. The supplying roll and the winding roll are accommodated in a single magazine, and while the photo-sensitive material is being wound on the winding roll, the image receiving material is allowed to come off the photo-sensitive material automatically. No cutting apparatus for the photo-sensitive material is required.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus for fixing an image on a dye-fixing element in accordance with image information in a photosensitive element is provided which comprises a storage for storing a dye-fixing element, another storage for storing a support, and means for bonding the dye-fixing element to the support. The apparatus operates to take the dye-fixing element and the support out of their storages and to feed them to the bond means where the dye-fixing element is bonded to the support. The dye-fixing element usually has an adhesive layer of a self-adhesive or hot-melt adhesive composition.

Abstract: An automatic photographic paper processing apparatus wherein between an exposure unit (2) for printing a photographic paper and a transferring means (9) for discharging an exposed photographic paper a discharge accumulating unit (A2) for accumulating temporarily the exposed photographic paper is provided, so that when an amount of the photographic paper accumulated at the discharge accumulating unit (A2) is decreased the photographic paper is cut by operating a cutter unit (20) arranged at the downstream of the exposure unit (2) and then the transferring speed at the transferring means (9) is increased.An automatic photographic paper processing apparatus wherein a paper accumulating unit (102) for accumulating temporarily sensitive photographic materials fed from an exposure unit (2) is provided at a position preceding a developing processing unit (103) consisting of a plurality of processing tanks (131, 132, 133, 134).

Abstract: An image recording apparatus of the type in which a latent image formed on a heat-developable photosensitive material through exposure is developed and the developed image is then transferred to an image-receiving material so as to be recorded on said image-receiving material. The exposure is effected on the heat-developable photosensitive material wound on the outer peripheral surface of an exposure drum, and the development and the transfer of the image are conducted with the image-receiving material wound around the heat-developable photosensitive material on the exposure drum, whereby the size of the apparatus as a whole is remarkably reduced.

Abstract: An image-forming apparatus of a type which has an exposing device for forming latent images on a photosensitive medium, and a developing device for developing the latent images into a visible images. The photosensitive medium is supplied in the form of a web from a supply roll, along a feed path which extends through the exposing and developing devices. A shearing device is provided between the exposing and developing devices, to cut the web into cut sheets each of which has a predetermined length including an image-wise exposed length. After each cut sheet is parted from the web, the web is fed back until its leading cut end reaches the developing device, so that each portion of the web following the cut sheet can be used.

Abstract: An image recording apparatus in which an image is initially recorded on a flexible photosensitive material and is then pressure transferred to an image-receiving material. The drives for the image recording and the pressure transferring are separated so as to reduce the mechanical effect on the imaging either by putting the imaging in a separate unit or by providing separate drives. The supply of photosensitive material from a roll is deflected to a discard bin when the cut length is less than a recording minimum but all action is stopped if the cut length is less than a conveyable minimum. The photosensitive material and the image-receiving material are separated by a pawl controllably swinging into the path of the two material after the pressure transferring operation.

Abstract: According to the present apparatus, a photo-pressure sensitive paper includes thereon a chromogenic material and photo-sensitive composition etc., and microcapsules which cure in response to light. The paper is fed onto an exposure table. The unexposed microcapsules on the paper are ruptured so that the chromogenic material and photo-sensitive composition etc., which flows therefrom reacts with a developing agent provided on either the paper or a transfer sheet where the image is formed. Responsive to the detected magnification during exposure, the paper is exposed from the leading edge thereof.

Abstract: A heat developing and transferring apparatus for conducting a heat development of a latent image formed on an exposed heat-developable photosensitive material and for conducting transfer of the developed image from said heat-developable photosensitive material to an image receiving material in the presence of an image forming solvent. The image receiving material and the heat-developable photosensitive material are superposed on a rotary drum in the mentioned order. An image formed on the heat-developable photosensitive material is transferred to the image receiving material by the heat generated by a heater. Then, the heat-developable photosensitive material is separated from the rotary drum and the image receiving material remaining on the rotary drum is dried before it is separated.