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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 1998
Filed:
Jul. 03, 1996
AGFA-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft, Leverkusen, DE;
Abstract
A printer has a scanning station where the negatives of a film are scanned zone-by-zone. One or more of the negatives are subsequently printed at a printing station by directing a beam of light through the negatives and onto a first photographic copy material. An exposure control unit adjusts the color composition and intensity of the light beam on the basis of data from the scanning station. Once a negative at the printing station has been printed in this manner, a reflector is moved into the path of the light beam between the negative and the copy material. The reflector deflects the light beam to a video camera which scans the negative line-by-line and point-by-point to generate a series of electrical signals representing an image of the negative. The signals are sent to a memory where they are combined with information about the image. A cathode ray tube connected to the memory then prints the image line-by-line and point-by-point, together with the relevant information, on a second photographic copy material.