Classifications

• • G—PHYSICS
  • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
  • G03B—APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FOR PROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
  • G03B27/00—Photographic printing apparatus
  • G03B27/32—Projection printing apparatus, e.g. enlarger, copying camera
  • G03B27/46—Projection printing apparatus, e.g. enlarger, copying camera for automatic sequential copying of different originals, e.g. enlargers, roll film printers
  • G03B27/462—Projection printing apparatus, e.g. enlarger, copying camera for automatic sequential copying of different originals, e.g. enlargers, roll film printers in enlargers, e.g. roll film printers
• • G—PHYSICS
  • G03—PHOTOGRAPHY; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USING WAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY
  • G03D—APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING EXPOSED PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS; ACCESSORIES THEREFOR
  • G03D15/00—Apparatus for treating processed material
  • G03D15/001—Counting; Classifying; Marking

Definitions

• the invention relates to a method for processing reorders of photographic prints.
• the exposed film is then delivered to a photo shop, department store, supermarket or other acceptance point for photo work for the development and production of paper pictures.
• the films are taken to the corresponding photo laboratories, where the negative films are usually developed and a colored paper picture is produced for each successful shot.
• the photo laboratories return the finished pictures together with the negatives to the acceptance points and from there they are picked up again by the customer.
• the negatives developed in cut several strips so that, for example, about 9 negative strips with 4 negatives each result from an entire film with 36 recordings.
• the photographer can write down his reorder on a simple piece of paper or he uses order fields of various kinds, which - depending on the laboratory - are on so-called work bags or negative bags.
• This reordering method is not without problems.
• the individual negative strips are glued to a common carrier tape, so that in the end a roll with many negative strips from many different customer orders is created, which an automatic copying machine can run through.
• a data medium must be created parallel to this film roll, which represents an electronic image of the film roll.
• This data carrier contains all information that allows the copying machine to automatically copy the respective number of images from the negatives ordered.
• the invention is therefore based on the object of minimizing this error rate when reordering photographic prints in a simple and economical manner.
• this object is achieved in that a standardized machine-readable reordering card is inserted into a reader which is able to read at least the negative number and number of images desired on the reordering card and to pass this information on to a customary forward processing unit, and that the negative strips are introduced into this processing unit in a suitable manner in order to be processed there on the basis of the information from the reading device.
• the entries on the reordering card are made by hand.
• the invention can also provide that the entries on the reorder card are made automatically.
• One embodiment of the invention provides that the entries on the reorder card are made in binary decimal form.
• the entries are made in plain text.
• the invention proposes that the entries on the reorder card read in the reader and recorded electromagnetically on a magnetic tape-like data medium.
• a reordering card made from recyclable material, preferably paper or cardboard, is used.
• An embodiment of the invention proposes that the reader locks further processing when certain fields identified by the customer are identified.
• the reading process is advantageously carried out in the idle state of the reordering card.
• the reading process takes place in a continuous process on reading units arranged in a row.
• the invention also proposes that, on the basis of the data collected from the reorder card, the reader notifies the processing unit of the total number of items per customer order and / or prints it on a separate field on the reorder card.
• the method according to the invention overcomes the disadvantages described above to a large extent. Handling at the customer is simplified and at the same time clear and hardly interpretable information is given to the laboratory for the error-free execution of his order requests.
• the material used for the machine-readable reorder card proves to be extremely “environmentally friendly, because here preferably only paper and neither any plastics nor adhesive film or adhesive are used at all.
• a reorder card described here is preferably added to the completed order at the end of the processing before delivery to the photographs.
• the order described here as completed can be a pure film development without the production of pictures or a film development with simultaneous production of one or more pictures each negative. Orders that already reach the laboratory in the form of a reorder will also be sent before delivery a reorder card that can be used by the customer for a new reorder.
• the reorder card should preferably be added to the completed order in the photo laboratory, but can also be given in the photo shop itself. There it can even be found on the back next to the Handling instructions can be used as a durable advertising medium for the corresponding photo shop or other acceptance points for photo work.
• feed units can feed several supplements to a photo order and it is very economical for the photo laboratory to add the reorder card to be registered here automatically to every customer order and thus without wasting time. It is advantageous that there is no need to glue all the negative strips with reordering strips and / or that printing of reordering fields on order or negative pockets can be dispensed with entirely.
• a preferred version of the reorder card therefore lies in the outer dimensions of a normal color image, which is standardized worldwide today.
• the reorder card is therefore preferably 102 mm wide and 150 mm high. This size is determined by the photo paper format common worldwide.
• the material used is only subject to conditions that ensure high reading accuracy.
• All information on the reorder card should serve for secure data transmission between the customer and the exporter through simple handling, preferably in the form of crosses in the corresponding information fields.
• a further developed form of data marking is a printer in all known printing types, which securely transmits the order data entered via a keyboard in the form of dots, markings, blackening, magnetization, perforations or others into the information fields.
• the customer marks a reorder card according to one of the options described and first decides on the desired image size.
• the three image sizes known and most frequently ordered at home and abroad are offered here.
• a mark in the "Format other" field informs the laboratory that the customer has special requests in the image size and prevents the order from being carried out incorrectly by a corresponding lock command in the laboratory reader. This order must now be fed to another processing route.
• the largest part of the reordering card is of course used to mark the negative numbers and the desired amount of images.
• the division into four negatives in a row roughly corresponds to the physically present form of the total film length divided into individual film strips after the film development. Such an arrangement of the order fields in a row makes it considerably easier to find the right negatives and the matching order field.
• the numbers before 1 to 36 represent the negative numbers as they appear on every 35 mm film during the production of the film be copied in. In the alternative, all negative numbers copied in this way are repeated once more at half a negative length and additionally provided with the letter "A". Since the position of the copied negative numbers is changed indefinitely by different constructions of the cameras, it can happen that the actual negative number is exactly between two negatives and that neither a specific negative can be identified for the customer nor for the laboratory carrying out the reordering. In this case, the addition "A”, which is now located together with the negative number in the middle of the intended negative, has an error-free meaning. This addition "A” can also be entered on the reorder with the respective negative number.
• Each negative number is assigned four number fields with the numbers 1, 2, 4 and 8 on the reorder card, each with an empty marker field underneath.
• marking fields next to the negative number of which the photographer would like to re-order pictures
• 0 to 15 pictures of each negative of an entire film can be ordered in this way. If no markings are made next to a negative field, this means that no further orders are requested from this negative.
• the other markings therefore have the following meanings: - 13 -
• the reorder card filled out in this way now reaches the photo laboratory along with the corresponding negatives via the usual dealer route.
• the reorder card can initially be used in the same way as all previously described reorder forms or order slips or reorder strips are also handled today. The information is read by eye and manually in the different reorder forms or order slips or reorder strips are also handled today. The information is read by eye and manually in the different reorder forms or order slips or reorder strips are also handled today. The information is read by eye and manually in the different
• the device detects a match, then the all pieces marked by crosses, dashes, dots or otherwise are read by the device and transferred to the data medium of the corresponding processing device.
• the binary decimal marking values are converted into an absolute numerical value beforehand in the reader itself.
• the reader determines the negative numbers, from which images are to be taken, from the geometric arrangement of the marked number of items.
• At least one indicator - here preferably in the form of a printed black dot - on the reorder card is recognized by the reader and thus lets the reader know that the reorder card is properly and completely inserted and. the reading process can be carried out. This also ensures the geometrical assignment of the marked order fields to the intended negative number.
• the reading process itself can take place both in the idle state of the reordering card and in the "continuous process" past a reading row arranged only in a single row.
• the evaluation of the marking fields can, however, also take place via any other type of known scanner or via another known evaluation logic.
• the data determined by the reader are made visible in concentrated form on a commercially available screen, so that the operating personnel can now take the negative strips required for the production of the images from the job bag and feed them to the processing device.
• the reader can do this at the push of a button communicated.
• the reading device can now determine the total of all ordered pictures of a customer order and transfer this total number of pieces to the processing device for checking and / or to print out this total number of pieces for a later final check on the "total" field provided on the reordering card by means of a known printing unit.
• the card is released again by the reader using a suitable mechanism so that it can be handed over to the photographer as an order document.

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