Abstract: Method of processing photographs in a photographic laboratory by means of a photographic processing system, comprising the steps of: receiving customer orders and processing information respectively assigned to said customer orders, each customer order comprising at least one photographic image, controlling the processing of a customer order in accordance with an assigned processing information; checking each processing information to ascertain whether or not the processing information may be automatically processed by said processing system and identifying those customer orders which are to be processed according to a non-automatically processable processing information.

Abstract: Method of processing photographs in a photographic laboratory by means of a photographic processing system, comprising the steps of: receiving customer orders and processing information, respectively assigned to the customer orders, each order comprising at least one photographic image and each processing information defining processing tasks, wherein a number of processing tasks is assigned to at least one processing site based on the processing skills of a number of operators available at the processing site, and if particular processing information of said received processing information, which is assigned to a corresponding order, requires the execution of at least one of said assigned processing tasks, the corresponding order is processed at the at least one assigned processing site for said execution.

Abstract: A photographic laboratory digital image sequencing apparatus for generating a sequence of digital images of a customer order before passing the digital images to a printer for printing, comprising an image input, through which the digital images are received, an image output which outputs the digital images, an image memory for storing the digital images of the customer order, a determining unit which determines positions of the stored digital images in an output sequence by referring to reference data, said image output outputting the digital images of the customer order from the memory according to the output sequence.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a photographic web cutter device for cutting a web of photographic paper prints, a so called batch, related to a plurality of customer orders, including magazines for the web or batch, a cutter portion and a control portion, and according to the invention said control portion controls the cutting operation by means of control data so that cut parts of the photographic web can be assigned to a related customer order.

Abstract: Method of processing photographs in a photographic laboratory by means of a photographic processing system, comprising the steps of: receiving customer orders and processing information, respectively assigned to the customer orders, each order comprising at least one photographic image and each processing information defining processing tasks, wherein a number of processing tasks is assigned to at least one processing site based on the processing skills of a number of operators available at the processing site, and if particular processing information of said received processing information, which is assigned to a corresponding order, requires the execution of at least one of said assigned processing tasks, the corresponding order is processed at the at least one assigned processing site for said execution.

Abstract: Method of processing photographs in a photographic laboratory by means of a photographic processing system, comprising the steps of:

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an arrangement for assigning photographic films of customer orders to the respective customer orders, so that the film batches can be assembled only in accordance with considering the format of the prints which have to be formed on the basis of the corresponding films, while the paper type or surface can be disregarded. To achieve this aim, an assignment section assigns the film portions cut from a film batch to envelopes in which the items of customer orders have been received by the photo lab, and in which the finished customer orders are sent by the photo lab back to the photo shop where the customer brought the undeveloped film for developing.