Image recording apparatus comprising an imagesetter and a vertical processor

US5771090A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Agfa-Gevaert NV · BE

Inventors

• Bartholomeus Verlinden · Tongeren, BE
• Patrick Van den Bergen · Mortsel, BE
• Jan Claes · Mortsel, BE

Key dates

• Filing date: May 7, 1996
• Grant date: Jun 23, 1998
• Expiry date: May 7, 2016

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G03B27/32
• WIPO field: Optics
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Apparatus for exposing and processing a photographic recording material, generally called imaging element, comprising (i) an exposing part, generally called imagesetter, in which the imaging element is imagewise exposed, and (ii) a processing part, generally called processor, in which the imaging element is wet processed, characterized in that the exposed imaging element is fed automatically from the imagesetter into the processor and in that the processing is carried out along a substantially vertical path. Also disclosed is a method for recording an image by using the above described apparatus for exposing and processing an imaging element.