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Auto-focus setting method and apparatus for printing slide films

US4592647A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJun 6, 1984
Grant dateJun 3, 1986
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Expiry dateJun 6, 2004

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG03B27/625
  • WIPO fieldOptics
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

An improved auto-focus setting operation of a slide film in a printing system can be carried out by preliminarily measuring auto-focus information before the slide film is fed to a printing position in the printing system. An auto-focus mechanism assembled in the printing system is operated in accordance with the auto-focus information for preliminarily setting a slide film setting member to a focus position of the slide film.

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