Fuji Photo Film Company, Limited

Shinichi Kaida

Kaoru Uchiyama

Kunio Hakkaku

An image recording apparatus for recording an image on a heat-sensitive recording material which has on both sides of a transparent support member a plurality of transparent heat-sensitive color developing layers that develop respective colors in different hues from each other. The image recording apparatus includes a reversing device for turning the heat-sensitive recording material upside down, after the transparent heat-sensitive color developing layer on one side has been heated to develop the color. Accordingly, color development for both sides of the heat-sensitive recording material can be automatically performed. An image recording method for recording an image by a recording head on a heat-sensitive recording material which has two sorts of dye layers on one side and one sort of dye layer on the other side. The image recording method comprises the steps of color-developing one of the said two sorts of dye layers on one side, irradiating light onto the color-developed dye layer to fix the developed color, turning the heat-sensitive recording material upside down, while irradiating the light onto the color-developed layer, and then color-developing the dye layer on the other side. Accordingly, a longer fixing time can be set to ensure the positive fixing.

Color image recording system using multi-layer, heat-sensitive recording

A recording device for thermal color recording of a medium having two color coupler layers on one side and another color coupler layer on the other side of a transparent support. The layer on the side with two layers and having the higher heat sensitivity is first thermally imaged and then optically fixed. Thereafter, the remaining layer on that side and the layer on the other side are thermally imaged.

Multicolor thermal recording device

A film processing method for removing troubled film strips from a series of film strips to which it is spliced for processing. The troubled film strip is removed by cutting along a line located inwardly of a leading end of the troubled film strip by a distance at least equal to the width of a splicing tape from a center line of the splice between the leading end of the troubled film strip and a preceding film strip such that a part of the troubled film strip remains connected to the preceding film strip. A succeeding film strip, or another film strip, is then spliced to the remaining part of the troubled film strip.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Shinichi Kaida