Abstract: An apparatus for processing photographic materials has at least one photographic processing station enclosed in a housing. The housing and the processing station are each independently mounted through their own oscillation-damping connections to a common support base, so that any connections between the housing and the processing station run exclusively through the common support base.

Abstract: A cassette type electronic image printing apparatus 200 is attached to a photosensitive material entrance opening 101 of a photographic processing apparatus 100 for developing photosensitive material 2 exposed with a film image. After the photosensitive material, e.g. a print paper, is exposed with an electronic image by the electronic image printing apparatus, the print paper is introduced, through the photosensitive material entrance opening 101, into the photographic processing apparatus, in which the print paper is transported by a transport mechanism 5 to a developing unit 4 to be developed thereby. By exposing the print paper also with a film image by a film exposing unit 3 of the photographic processing apparatus, a composite image print of the electronic image and the film image may be obtained optionally.

Abstract: An apparatus for developing a dental x-ray film which is packaged in a light-proof envelope having two covering surfaces, in which a tear strip is formed on the covering surfaces at an edge common to the package and the covering surfaces are joined to one another so as to be easily pulled apart at their two edges running parallel to the edge with the tear strips, the apparatus having a developing tank with a developing frame underneath an entry slot in which the dental x-ray film is to be inserted.

Abstract: A mechanism for capturing an image of an object client includes a camera having an optical axis extending in a direction toward the object client. A half mirror is mounted across and at an angle to the optical axis of the camera. A monitor displays an image taken by the camera. The monitor has an optical axis extending perpendicular to the optical axis of the camera and is reflected by the half mirror toward the object client. The camera is located at a position such that the optical axis thereof is offset from and not coincident with the optical axis of the monitor reflected from the half mirror.