JPH03280049A - Photograph processing device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve working efficiency by automatically collating films and photographic paper and omitting the manual labor for a collating process. CONSTITUTION:Codes to specify the film 12 are stored into a memory means prior to the printing processing by a printing device. The codes stored in the memory means are then read out and are printed to the photographic paper 16 by a 1st printing means 50 at the time of executing the printing processing by using the film. The film 12 with which the printing processing ends is cut by every prescribed frame and the cut films are successively housed into a housing section 58 for film sheets 56. The same codes as the codes which are stored in the memory means and are printed on the photographic paper 16 are printed by a 2nd printing means 65 on the film sheets 56 by one piece each of the films. The corresponding films and the photographic paper are checked if the codes are collated in this way without collating the images of the films housed in the housing section for the film sheets and the images printed on the photographic paper and, therefore, the labor for the collation process is saved and the working efficiency is improved.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention [Industrial Application Field] The present invention involves conveying a plurality of films continuously in the longitudinal direction, performing development processing by a developing device, and printing processing on photographic paper by a printing device. The present invention relates to a photographic processing apparatus that later cuts film into predetermined frames.

[Prior art]

The photographed film is fed into the developing device by the film supply device, and the developing device performs development, fixing, washing, and drying processes, and then the printing device performs the printing process on photographic paper. There are so-called large labs that handle negative films, and so-called mini-labs that handle small amounts of negative films. In the minilab, the developing device and the printing device are integrated, and the negative film supplied by the film feeding device is discharged from the device when the printing process is completed (simultaneous printing).

After the printing process is completed, the negative film is returned to the customer along with the photographic paper. Note that the negative film is cut into pieces of a predetermined number of frames (usually six frames) and stored in a storage section provided on the negative sheet before being returned.

Here, when returning the photographic paper and negative film to the customer,
Conventionally, a negative film and a corresponding photographic paper have been compared by visually comparing the patterns of the image on the negative film and the image on the photographic paper by an operator.

On the other hand, in the large laboratory, a device is installed that automatically cuts the negative film after printing into a predetermined number of frames and inserts them into the negative sheet. are conveyed in parallel, the order of these conveyances is automatically counted, the negative film is cut, and the negative film is inserted and stored in the negative sheet. This eliminates the need for visual verification by the worker, resulting in good work efficiency.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

However, although such automated equipment is suitable for large laboratories that process a large amount of negative film, it is not suitable from a cost standpoint for small-scale processing systems such as the aforementioned minilabs, and it remains Verification is performed visually by workers, which results in poor work efficiency.

In consideration of the above facts, the present invention provides a photographic processing device that can automatically collate film and photographic paper with a simple device and improve work efficiency by eliminating manual labor in the collation process. It is a purpose.

[Means to solve the problem]

The photographic processing apparatus according to the present invention continuously conveys a plurality of films in the longitudinal direction, performs development processing using a developing device, and printing processing onto photographic paper using a printing device, and cuts the film into predetermined frames after the printing processing. The photographic processing device comprises a storage means for storing a different code determined for each film, and reads out the code of the film currently being used during printing by the printing device from the storage means and transfers the code to photographic paper. A first printing means for printing, a film sheet provided with a continuous storage section for accommodating the film cut into each predetermined frame, and printing by the first printing means on the film sheet for each film. and second printing means for printing the code of each film.

[Effect]

According to the present invention, a code specifying this film is stored in the storage means before the printing process by the printing device. As a means of storing it, it is possible to input the code each time for each film using a keyboard, or by converting the code into a numerical value and storing the first code each time the film is updated. It may be incremented.

Next, when performing a printing process using the film, the code stored in the storage means is read out and the code is printed on photographic paper by the first printing means. After the printing process has been completed, the film is cut into predetermined frames and sequentially stored in a film sheet storage section. Film sheet is film 1
It may be cut with a cutter for each case.

Here, the film sheet cut for each film is also stored in the storage means, and the same code as that printed on the photographic paper is printed by the second printing means. This makes it possible to identify the corresponding film and photographic paper by simply comparing the codes, without having to compare the image of the film stored in the film sheet storage section with the image printed on the photographic paper. Since it is possible to do this, it is possible to save labor in the verification process and improve work efficiency. Furthermore, compared to large and complicated devices used in large laboratories, it is possible to save labor in the collation process with a simple device, making it ideal for small-scale systems such as minilabs.

〔Example〕

FIG. 1 shows a photographic printing processing apparatus 10 according to this embodiment. This photographic printing processing apparatus 10 includes a film processing apparatus 14 that automatically develops, fixes, washes, and dries a long photographed negative film 12 (see FIG. 2) while conveying it in the direction of arrow R. , the printing device 18 that prints the image recorded on the negative film 12 onto the photographic paper 16 (see Figure 2), and the photographic paper 16 after the printing process are indicated by the arrow S.
A photographic paper processing device 20 that performs developing, fixing, washing, and drying processing while conveying the photographic paper in the direction shown in FIG.

A door 22 is provided on the front side of the paper in FIG. 1, and serves as a loading port for a long photographic paper 16 wound in layers onto a winding shaft 24, as shown in FIG. There is. Photographic paper 16
The printing paper 16 is housed in a magazine (not shown), and is loaded together with the magazine, so that fogging or the like will not occur due to external light when the photographic paper 16 is loaded.

On the top surface of the photographic printing processing apparatus 10, an operation panel 26 and a printing light source unit 28 are arranged side by side.

A negative carrier 30 is disposed below the printing light source unit 28, and the printing light source unit 28 and the negative carrier 3
G constitutes the printing device 18. The lower part of the negative carrier 30 is a conveyance path for the photographic paper 16, and the photographic paper 16 ejected from the magazine passes under this negative carrier 30.

The photographic paper processing device 20 is disposed on the back side of the printing light source unit 28 in the drawing. The photographic paper processing device 20 includes a processing tank (a processing tank in which a developing tank, a fixing tank, and a washing tank are integrated).
As shown in FIG. 2, the guide roller 32 rotates by the driving force of a driving means (not shown), and is immersed in each type of water, turned around near the bottom, and sequentially guided to adjacent tanks. It is now possible to do so.

The photographic paper 16 that has passed through the washing tank, which is the final stage of the processing tank,
The conveying direction is changed to approximately horizontal above the processing tank, and the sheet is conveyed toward the printing light source unit 28.

Here, when transported in this horizontal state, the material passes through a drying chamber 34 provided above the processing tank and is subjected to a drying process.

A first printing device 50, which is a first printing means, is arranged near the exit of the drying chamber 34.

This first printing device 50 is opposed to the back surface of the photographic paper 1B. As shown in FIG. 3, the first printing device 50 is connected to a control device 52, and prints a code on the back side of photographic paper in response to a signal from the control device 52. This code is set for each negative film 12, and is stored in advance in the storage section of the control device 52 by operating the numeric keypad 54 provided on the operation panel 26. Here, in this embodiment, the code is a numerical value, and the code input using the numeric keypad 54 is only required for the first number, and is automatically incremented and stored every time the order of 120 negative films changes. ing.

As shown in FIG. 1, the photo printing processing apparatus 10 has a panel surface extending toward the right side of the door 22. As shown in FIG. On the standing surface 38 that is continuous with the upper surface of the extended panel surface,
A loading port 42 is provided into which a magazine 40 containing cartridges 13 (see FIG. 2) in a predetermined arrangement is loaded. The cartridge 13 is made up of a layered layer of photographed negative film 12 that is pulled out and placed in a leader (
(not shown). Inside the loading port 42,
A film supply device (not shown) is provided, and the operation of this film supply device guides the league to pull out the negative film 12 from the cartridge and guide it to the film processing device 14 on the downstream side. That is, the film processing device 14 has the loading port 42 of the magazine 12.
It is continuous with the photographic paper processing device 20 and is arranged in parallel with the photographic paper processing device 20.

As shown in FIG. 2, the direction in which the negative film 12 is conveyed is parallel to the direction in which the photographic paper 16 is conveyed. The film processing device 14 is provided with a processing tank (not shown) in which a developing tank, a fixing tank, and a washing tank are integrated.
They are immersed in each type of water, turned over near the bottom, and guided to adjacent tanks in sequence.

Negative film 1 that has passed through the washing tank, which is the final stage of the processing tank
2 has its conveyance direction changed to approximately horizontal above the processing tank, and is conveyed toward the loading port 42. Here, when transported in this horizontal state, the material passes through a drying chamber 36 provided above the processing tank, and is subjected to a drying process.

The negative film 12 that has passed through the drying chamber 36 is transferred to the loading port 42.
The paper is conveyed to a conveyance direction changing device 46 provided above. The conveyance direction changing device 46
As shown in the figure, a redirection roller 48 is provided. The axis of the direction changing roller 48 is the direction in which the negative film 12 is conveyed from the drying chamber 36 (in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 2) and the direction in which it is conveyed after the direction change (in the direction of the arrow B in FIG. 2).
are arranged so as to be inclined at the same angle with respect to both. Here, since the inclination angle in this embodiment is 45 degrees, the direction of the negative film 12 wound around this direction changing roller 48 is changed by 90 degrees. That is, the direction of arrow A and the direction of arrow B in FIG. 2 are perpendicular to each other.

As shown in FIG. 2, the aforementioned negative carrier 30 is disposed in the extending direction of the negative film 12 whose direction has been changed by the direction changing roller 48.

Therefore, when the negative film 12 whose direction has been changed by the direction change roller 48 is conveyed, it is guided by the drive of the sprocket provided on the negative carrier 12 and positioned to the printing position.

Here, when a light beam from the light source 68 (see FIG. 2) of the printing light source unit 28 is irradiated, the light beam passes through the image recorded on the negative film 12 and onto the photographic paper 16 positioned at the printing position. The structure is such that the latent image is printed on the image. Although not shown, the printing device 18 includes a shutter,
A lens and a filter are provided, the shutter determines a predetermined exposure time, the lens determines a predetermined magnification, and the filter adjusts the exposure time of each color.

As shown in FIG. 2, the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the image recorded on the negative film 12 are long in the longitudinal direction of the negative film 12 and short in the width direction. On the other hand, the width direction of the photographic paper 16 corresponds to the longitudinal direction of the negative film 12. For this reason,
In this embodiment, the direction of the negative film 12 is changed by the direction change roller 48 so that it is perpendicular to the photographic paper 16, so that its vertical and horizontal positions match, and it can be printed directly without changing the image orientation. .

On the downstream side of the printing position in the negative film transport direction,
A cutter 70 is provided. This cutter 7G is designed to cut the negative film 12 every predetermined frame (every 6 frames in this embodiment).

Each of the six cut negative films is inserted and protected into a bag-shaped storage section 58 provided continuously on the long negative sheet 56, and then returned to the customer. Negative sheet 56
are wound up in layers on the feed drum 60, and the insertion opening of the storage section 58 is sequentially arranged on the conveyance path of the negative film 12 by the driving force of a drive means (not shown).
It is adapted to be wound onto a winding drum 62.

As shown in FIGS. 2 and 3, above the linearly stretched portion of the negative sheet 56 between the feed drum 60 and the take-up drum 62, there is a second printing unit, which is a second printing means. A device 64 is provided. This second printing device 64 is connected to the control device 52 as shown in FIG.
The same code as that printed on 6 is printed. The second printing device 64 also prints a frame number on the surface corresponding to each image frame when the negative film 12 is stored in the storage section 58.

In the control device 52, when the code is printed on the negative sheet 56, the code is automatically incremented, and the code corresponding to the next order of negative film is stored.

The operation of this embodiment will be explained below.

A cartridge containing photographed negative films is loaded into a magazine 40 in a predetermined arrangement, and the leading edge of the negative film 12 pulled out from the cartridge is adhered to a leader. In this state, insert the magazine 40 into the loading port 42.
and operate the film feeding device. At this time,
The code is entered manually by operating the numeric keypad 54 on the operation panel 26.

This code is a numerical value, and the input code is
is stored in the storage unit.

When the film supply device is activated, the league is guided and withdrawn, and the negative films 12 are sequentially pulled out from the cartridge and conveyed to the film processing device 14.

In the film processing device 14, the conveyed negative film 12 is subjected to development, fixing, and water washing processes, and then conveyed toward the loading port 42 with the conveyance direction being in a horizontal state. When transported in this horizontal state, it passes through the drying chamber 3B and is dried.

The negative film 12 that has passed through the drying chamber 36 is conveyed to an h feed direction changing device 46 and wound around a direction changing roller 48 . This direction changing roller 4) has its axial direction inclined at 45 degrees with respect to the direction of transport of the negative film 12 from the drying chamber 36 (in the direction of the arrow in FIG. 2). 12, the conveying direction can be changed to a direction 90° with respect to the direction of arrow A in FIG. 2 (direction of arrow B in FIG. 2).The direction of arrow B in FIG. The direction is perpendicular to the direction.

The Saiga film 12 whose direction has been changed by the direction changing roller 48 is further conveyed, engaged with the sprocket of the negative carrier 30 of the printing device 18, and positioned at the printing position of the negative carrier 30.

On the other hand, the photographic paper 16 is placed together with the magazine at a predetermined position C inside the door 22, and is conveyed toward the printing device 18. The photographic paper 16 pulled out from the magazine reaches below the negative carrier 30 of the printing device 18 and is positioned at the printing position. In this state, the light source 68 of the smoked wood light source unit 28 irradiates the negative film 12 with light, and the transmitted light that has passed through the negative film 12 is irradiated onto the emulsion surface of the photographic paper 16 and recorded on the negative film 12. A latent image of the image is printed. In the photographic printing processing apparatus 10 of this embodiment, the direction of the negative film 12 is changed by 90 degrees so that it is perpendicular to the conveying direction of the photographic paper 16, so that the vertical and horizontal positions of the image are the same as when printed on the photographic paper 16. The vertical and horizontal positions match, and the image can be printed as is.

After the printing process has been completed, the photographic paper 16 is further conveyed, and after being subjected to development, fixing, and water washing processes, the conveyance direction is made horizontal and the photographic paper 16 is conveyed toward the printing device 18. During conveyance in this horizontal state, the photographic paper 16 is guided to the drying chamber 34, subjected to a drying process, and then discharged. Here, the control device 52
The signal is sent from
Print on the back side. This printing position corresponds to each image printed on the emulsion surface. Therefore, even if the photographic paper 16 is cut into individual images in a subsequent process, the same code will be printed on the back side of each image.

The negative film 12 that has been subjected to the printing process is cut into every six frames and is stored in the storage section 58 of the negative sheet 56 . When one cut negative film 12 is stored in the storage section 58, the feed roller 60 and the take-up roller 62 are operated to place the next empty storage section 58 on the negative film transport path. As a result, the negative films 12 are loaded one after another into the housing section 5.
8 can be accommodated.

Here, a second printing device 64 is disposed on the negative sheet 56, and the same code as that printed on the photographic paper 16 is printed based on a signal from the control device 52. That is, the code printed on the back side of the simultaneously printed photographic paper 16 matches the code printed on the negative sheet 56 containing the negative film 12 used during the simultaneous printing. Therefore, when returning the negative film 12 and photographic paper 16 to the customer, the code can be checked without looking at the image recorded on the negative film 12 and the image recorded on the photographic paper 1G. It can be verified only by This saves labor in verification work and improves work efficiency.

On the negative sheet 56, a frame number is also printed in correspondence with each image frame of the negative film 12 accommodated in the storage section 58 together with the code.

In addition, it becomes easy to identify image frames when ordering t1 reprints.

When the printing operation by the second printing device 64 is completed, the control wave W52 increments the code (numeric value) stored in the storage unit and stores it again. This incremented code becomes a code that specifies the negative film 12 to be developed next.

In this way, in this embodiment, a specific code is set on the negative film 12 to be developed, and the code is printed on the back side of the photographic paper 16 printed by this negative film 12, and the negative sheet containing the negative film 12 is set. By printing a code on 56, the process of comparing the two can be omitted, and work efficiency can be improved.

In this example, numerical values were used as codes, but this is because it is easy to automatically increment calculations (r = I + 1 if a specific numerical value is used), and alphabets and symbols are used instead of numerical values. It may be. Further, although the above code is printed on the back side of the photographic paper 16, it may also be printed on the white frame portion on the outer periphery of the emulsion side of the photographic paper.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the photographic processing apparatus according to the present invention has the advantage of being able to automatically collate film and photographic paper with a simple device, and improving work efficiency by eliminating manual labor in the collation process. have an effect.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a perspective view showing the external appearance of the photographic printing processing apparatus according to the present embodiment, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the conveyance path of negative film and photographic paper, and FIG. 3 is a diagram showing the first and second printing devices. It is a control block diagram for controlling. 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 46, 50, 52, 56, 58, 64, ・Photographic printing processing device, ・Negative film, ・Film processing device, ・Photographic paper, ・Printing device, ・Photographic paper Processing device, - Conveyance direction changing device, - First printing device, - Control device, - Negative sheet, - Accommodation section, - Second printing device.

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) A photographic processing device that continuously conveys a plurality of films in the longitudinal direction, performs development processing using a developing device, and printing processing onto photographic paper using a printing device, and cuts the film into predetermined frames after the printing processing. , a storage means for storing a different code determined for each film, and a first printing for reading out the code of the film currently used during printing by the printing device from the storage means and printing it on photographic paper. means, a film sheet having a series of accommodating portions for accommodating the film cut into each predetermined frame, and a film code printed by the first printing means on the film sheet for each film. A photo processing device comprising: a second printing means for printing each item.