Abstract: Systems and methods for secure, remote printing includes a mobile device (e.g., cell phone or PDA) establishing a secure communication connection with a mobile printer and a server, such a connection using one or more encryption protocols (e.g., SSL, TLS, etc.). The server encrypts the requested data and transmits it to the printer via the secure connection, whereon the printer decrypts and prints the data. The mobile device can, according to other aspects of the invention, logs operational performance characteristic of the printer, the server, and/or the communication connections therebetween. A media cartridge can be provided includes an enclosure having a substantially planar shape, wherein each of its length and width dimensions are greater than its height. An opening is disposed along a width-wise edge (e.g., a “front” of the enclosure), and one or more regions are also disposed on opposing length-wise edges (e.g., a “left side” and a “right side” of the enclosure).

Abstract: Systems and methods for for secure, remote printing includes a mobile device (e.g., cell phone or PDA) establishing a secure communication connection with a mobile printer and a server, such a connection using one or more encryption protocols (e.g., SSL, TLS, etc.). The server encrypts the requested data and transmits it to the printer via the secure connection, whereon the printer decrypts and prints the data. The mobile device can, according to other aspects of the invention, logs operational performance characteristic of the printer, the server, and/or the communication connections therebetween. A media cartridge can be provided includes an enclosure having a substantially planar shape, wherein each of its length and width dimensions are greater than its height. An opening is disposed along a width-wise edge (e.g., a “front” of the enclosure), and one or more regions are also disposed on opposing length-wise edges (e.g., a “left side” and a “right side” of the enclosure).

Abstract: Apparatus for processing a transparency film assemblage subsequent to the photographic exposure of its instant type film frame. The apparatus includes a pair of rollers for spreading a layer of processing liquid between the film frame and a strip sheet, a stripping roller for grasping a free end of the strip sheet and removing it from covering relation with a visible image in the film frame, and structure for folding an apertured section of a film mount into face-to-face relation with another apertured section of the mount such that the film frame is sandwiched therebetween with its image area in alignment with the aperture in each section.

Abstract: A transparency film assemblage of the type which includes a film mount having first and second apertured sections, a film frame of the instant type mounted on the first section in superposition to its aperture, a strip sheet mounted in superposed relation to the film frame, and a container having a supply of processing liquid which is to be spread between the sheet and the film frame, subsequent to the latter's exposure, to initiate the formation of a visible image in the film frame. The film mount is constructed to accommodate the container and/or the sheet, after the latter has been stripped from the image in the film frame which is to be subsequently viewed, such that the container and/or sheet may be sandwiched between the first and second sections when they are secured in face-to-face relation to define a fully mounted transparency ready to be placed in a projector.

Abstract: A disposable kit of the type adapted for use in a film processing apparatus in the processing of a roll of exposed instant type transparency film, preferably of the 35 mm format. The kit includes a two sectioned housing which encloses a roll of sheet material, a container of processing liquid, and a dispenser which is adapted to apply a coating of processing liquid to one side of the sheet material as it is being withdrawn from the housing prior to it being laminated to the exposed film. One of the housing sections is constructed such that a component of the processing apparatus may move it from a closed position to an open position wherein a rupturing mechanism of the processing apparatus may enter the housing and rupture the container of processing liquid. At the end of the processing cycle, the housing section is moved back into its closed position to thereby substantially enclose any residue of the processing operation.

Abstract: A photographic film assemblage including a film cassette having a hollow spool or core upon which a strip of film is wound. An end portion of the film is releasably secured to the spool by a release member mounted within the spool. The release member is adapted to prevent the end portion of the film from being detached from the spool during exposure of the film in a camera and to release its hold upon the end portion of the film upon the film assemblage being placed within a film processor, whereby the strip of film may be completely unwound from the spool during processing of the film.