Gerber Systems Corporation

Timothy P MacDonald

Alan W Menard

Ronald J Straayer

Bruce L Davidson

David P Squires

John E Markowski, Iii

Uri Bin-Nun

John M Davies

Thomas J Suhr

Christopher J Chestnut

David D Williams

Mark C Schwartz

An automated media transport apparatus and method includes a load module for loading media plates from a flat cassette through one end of an internal drum of an imaging module. Sensors detect the presence of interleaved paper sheets from the media plates being loaded, and paper assemblies remove any interleaved paper sheets. An unload module unloads imaged media plates from the other end of the drum, and position the unloaded plates onto a multi-directional conveyor of the unload module. The conveyor is capable of moving the imaged media plate in one of several directions to other devices for further processing of the media plates.

Automated media transport device and method of using the same

A photoplotting apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises an internal drum plotter and a media sheet handling apparatus for sequentially delivering a photosensitive media sheet to the photoplotter for exposure from a stack of such sheets. The photoplotter has reduced turbulence within the drum during exposure of the media sheet, and the sheet handling apparatus includes means for separating the sheets in the stack from interleaves disposed between adjacent sheets in the stack.

Imaging device and media handling apparatus

An apparatus includes a media handler which is capable of processing a supply of media sheets which can take the form of plates, aluminum or plastic used in lithographic printing presses or the like, or can be film which is advanced to a drum and scanned by a scanning process and thereafter removed from the drum surface by appropriate handling means.

Apparatus and method of positioning photosensitive media on an exposure

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South Windsor, CT, United States of America

Timothy P MacDonald