Method and apparatus for printing photographs of different formats

US5748286A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Hans-Georg Schindler · Holzkirchen, DE
• Hans-Jurgen Rauh · Grünwald, DE
• Manfred Fürsich · Taufkirchen, DE
• Magos Vasilios · Unterhaching, DE
• Wilhelm Nitsch · Munich, DE
• Rainer Deutsch · Hersbruck, DE
• Klaus Hartmann · Schriesheim, DE
• Leonhard Huber · Glonn, DE
• Gerhard Benker · Pullach, DE
• Reimund Munch · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 18, 1995
• Grant date: May 5, 1998
• Expiry date: May 18, 2015

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B27/462
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and apparatus for producing prints of different formats from negatives in the form of strips. The negative images are printed in one reproduction scale on one section of a strip of stock during a first pass of the strip through the printing mechanism, the printing mechanism is readjusted, and the negative images are then printed in another, different scale on a subsequent section of the strip of stock during another pass of the strip through the printing mechanism.