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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2004
Filed:
May. 28, 2002
Masahiro Nishida, Kyoto, JP;
Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co., Ltd., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
In a plate producing apparatus which consecutively produces a set of four plates, a wait time is conventionally observed to await the feeding of a plate in an image recording section in the case where the set of plates is switched. In order to solve this problem, a multi-cassette section horizontally moves a selected one of a plurality of cassettes to an autoloading section . The autoloading section moves the cassette after undergoing the horizontal movement to a plate feeding position through up-and-down movements, retrieves a plate P from that cassette , and feeds the plate P to an image recording section . The image recording section winds the plate thus fed around a recording drum , records an image thereon by means of a recording head , and releases the recorded plate from the recording drum so as to be ejected. While the image recording section is recording an image on the plate, a CPU receives control information C associated with a next plate, and causes the multi-cassette section and the autoloading section to sequentially operate by using the control information C.