Abstract: A method and an apparatus for exposing multi-pages original images or several separate text and/or picture portions onto a light sensitive material like an offset plate or an intaglio plate by a laser exposure process. The apparatus includes a cassette for a light sensitive material, a laser unit for exposing the light sensitive material, a discharge conveyor for the exposed light sensitive material, and an exposure table which is stepwise movable between the plate cassette and the discharge conveyor and under the laser unit. The exposure table is formed with a device for holding the light sensitive material in a predetermined position thereon.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for adjusting the binding back gauge (measurements) for printed matters, especially bulky type newspapers or magazines or other types of back sew-stitched, wire-stitched, adhesive bound, for instance adhesive block bound printed matters manufactured from film originals (7', 7") containing text and picture blocks in a given standard layout on the film original, whereby the films corresponding to the pages of the printed matter which are located in advance of or after the central spread of each unit of print section or unit of combined print sections are provided displaced in the direction towards the back line (8) of the printed matter to be made or away from said back line respectively.