Noritsu Koki Co., Ltd.

Ishihara Sangyo Kaisha, Ltd.

Noritsu Kenkyu Center Co., Ltd.

Noritsu Kenkya Center Co., Ltd.

Hiroo Ikeura

Hajime Murakami

Yuji Yamamoto

Yoshiyuki Yamaji

Shigeki Nishida

Yoshikazu Tamaki

Kazuhiro Kimura

Yuji Hayashi

Tooru Takenouchi

Ritsuo Tanaka

A printing device of the present invention includes a printing head for carrying out a printing operation on one side of a surface of a disk, such as a CD-R medium, and arranged such that the printing operation is performed on the disk as the disk and the printing head are relatively shifted by the rotation of the disk.

Printing device for carrying out a printing operation on a surface of a disk

A photographic copying apparatus for reproducing an original on photosensitive paper. A roll of photosensitive paper mounted in a magazine is fed downwardly and cut into sheets. Each sheet is sucked to a vertically arranged suction conveyor and fed down. At a predetermined position, the feed of the sheet stops. An exposure table which is turnable and movable between two points is turned and pressed against the sheet on the conveyor. The suction conveyor stops sucking the sheet while the exposure table starts sucking it, so that the sheet is handed over to the latter. The table now carrying the sheet moves toward the expsoure unit. On its way, it is turned and passed under a corona charger. As the table reaches and the exposure unit, it is turned again and the light reflected by an original is shed on the sheet for light exposure. The table is then turned to bring its sheet carrying side down and moved in an opposite direction toward the conveyor. The sheet is brought into contact with one of several kinds of developing solutions in tanks which are adapted to be raised into contact with the sheet one after another. Any excess solution applied to the sheet is removed by a squeezer. After this first development cycle, the table is turned by 180 degrees and moved toward the exposure unit again for another cycle of development. This cycle is repeated as many times as the number of colors used.

Electrophotographic copying apparatus

A lamp unit for use in an electrophotographic copying apparatus. The lamp unit containing a lamp moves under an original on the original support. The lamp unit is formed with a slit through which the light from the lamp is shed on to the original and is reflected by it on to a photosensitive object to form an image thereon. The slit is the narrowest at its center and gradually widens toward its both ends. Also, the lamp unit is accelerated until it reaches the center of the original support and is decelerated thereafter. This assures a uniform distribution of light over the surface of a photosensitive object.

Light source assembly for use with an electrophotographic copying

A web of photosensitive material fed into a drying chamber is carried on an endless conveyer belt hanging in a U-shape in contact with and guided along a U-shaped belt guide. Hot air is blown out of a duct arranged within the U-shaped belt guide to dry the material and press it against the surface of the conveyer belt. Thus, the material is carried by the belt conveyer smoothly without suffering any damages on its surface due to rubbing against guide members.

Dryer for photosensitive material

A new method of making it possible to quickly and easily determine the optimum exposure conditions for a photographic color printer is disclosed. The method is performed by way of the steps of preparing a plurality of test prints under different exposure condition using a standard negative film, measuring optical density for each of color components on the test prints, comparing their optical density with that of corresponding color component on a standard print, detecting change in optical density per unit positional change of correction key on each of the test prints with respect to each of color components, and determining corrective value required for correcting density difference between each of test prints and standard print with reference to the above change in optical density per unit positional change of correction key. The color printer includes four lines of exposure correction keys comprising density keys, yellow keys, magenta keys and cyan keys and an exposure condition for test prints is determined such that one of exposure condition correction keys selected from the four lines is a correction key ranked above or below normal keys and all other keys are normal keys.

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Wakayama, Japan

Hiroo Ikeura