70 results about "Photographic printing" patented technology

A method and a device are provided for automating receipt of orders for additional printing of a photographic print, including order information relating to desired image processing. In a print order receiving machine, when a photographic print is inserted, an image of the photographic print is read and displayed on a monitor (steps 150, 152). When order conditions are inputted, an image which is processed on the basis of the order conditions is displayed on the monitor (steps 154 through 158). Further, when input of the order conditions is completed, the order conditions and order information based on the order conditions are set. The set order information is printed onto a photographic print as an invisible two-dimensional bar code. Copying processing of the photographic print is carried out on the basis of the order information which is read from the photographic print.

The invention provides a thermal transfer sheet and a protective layer transfer sheet. It is intended to provide a sheet of excellent transfer performance, in particular, a thermal transfer sheet that excels in transfer sensitivity and adhesion between base material and dye layer and that can be used in high-speed photographic printing with high transfer sensitivity, being capable of providing a photographic print of high density and high clearness, and a protective layer transfer sheet that excels in transfer performance, being markedly low in the generation of static electricity at the time of transfer. Further, it is intended to provide a photographic print that excels in antistatic performance, plasticizer resistance and transparency. There is provided a sheet with a base material, in particular, a thermal transfer sheet (I) comprising a laminate of, sequentially arranged, a base material, an underlayer and a dye layer, or a protective layer transfer sheet (II) comprising a base material and, detachably superimposed on at least part of the surface thereof, a protection transfer laminate including a conductive layer, characterized in that the underlayer and conductive layer are each one produced using colloidal inorganic pigment ultrafine particles.

A high-speed digital photographic printing system and method includes image-specific backprinting and automatic tracking and sorting of printed jobs. The system includes one or more photographic printers, where each printer can have a different printing rate. A scheduler schedules printing orders to the different printers. The printer-independent image rendering is conducted asynchronous to the printing to maximize the printing throughput. In some embodiments, the rendering image processor does the vast majority of the image processing and outputs a printer-independent data file (generally much larger than the source image data file) that requires little if any further data manipulations or processing in the exposure unit. A photographic printing method and system for producing prints in response to input digital images includes a high-speed exposure unit that exposes a photosensitive material coated on a substrate in response to the input digital image, a chemical processor unit that receives and processes the exposed photosensitive material to form visible dye images on the substrate, a backprinting unit that receives the substrate having the visible dye images and prints information on the opposite surface of the substrate to the dye image, and a cutting unit that produces separate sheets of printed images after the backprinting unit prints information.

A printer system, a printer apparatus, a printing method, an ink ribbon and a printing medium that certainly and effectively prevent a quality of printed image from being degraded without causing trouble to a user. More concretely, the printing medium is provided with memory mechanisms and the memory mechanisms stores predetermined control data, the printer apparatus reads out the control data stored in the memory mechanisms by contactless communication and controls the photographic printing operation on the basis of the control data which is read out.

In an operating unit for an electrophotographic printing or copying system, the operating unit has a graphical user interface with input and / or output fields, with help of which an operation of the electrophotographic printing or copying system occurs. A user account is selectable from at least two preset user accounts. A setting of at least one input and / or output field of the graphical user interface is adjustable for at least one user account.

There is provided an image processing apparatus including a first principal portion extracting device which extracts a principal portion of an image based on image data, a display device which displays an extraction result of the principal portion of the image extracted by the first principal portion extracting device, input device for inputting first instruction information for indicating whether the extraction result displayed on the display device is correct and also inputting second instruction information for indicating a region to be newly extracted as a principal portion, and second principal portion extracting device which extracts a new principal portion based on the second instruction information inputted by the input device.

An image data control apparatus includes: a job analysis section for detecting property data which is included in a file for storing supplied document image data and which shows a property of the document image data; and an interpreter section for generating data for photographic printing based on the property data detected by the job analysis section and the document image data.

In a printing system for printing image data based on an order from a client, a character and / or a simple image desired by a user can be printed on a print. The user describes the content of the order in order information and transfers the order information to a laboratory when he / she orders printing of the image data. At this time, the character and / or the simple image to be printed on the print is described as character image information in the order information. The laboratory prints the image data based on the order information and prints the character and / or the simple image on the back of the print or on a white fringe or the like, based on the character image information described in the order information.

The present invention discloses an ink-jet recording sheet which, on at least one surface of a support, has a porous ink absorbing layer containing fine particle silica having the average particle size of 0.5 μm or smaller produced by wet process, electrolytes such as alkaline metal salts and alkaline earth metal salts, and polyvinyl alcohol; and then has a gloss layer. The ink-jet recording sheet has excellent features, that is, it has gloss like that of photographic printing paper, the excellent ink absorption speed and ink absorption capacity, and does not produce defects of the coating due to the cracks generated during drying in production processes of the ink absorbing layer. Therefore, the ink-jet recording sheet is suitable as a recording sheet for an ink-jet printer.

The present invention discloses an ink-jet recording sheet which, on at least one surface of a support, has a porous ink absorbing layer containing fine particle silica having the average particle size of 0.5 m or smaller produced by wet process, electrolytes such as alkaline metal salts and alkaline earth metal salts, and polyvinyl alcohol; and then has a gloss layer. The ink-jet recording sheet has excellent features, that is, it has gloss like that of photographic printing paper, the excellent ink absorption speed and ink absorption capacity, and does not produce defects of the coating due to the cracks generated during drying in production processes of the ink absorbing layer. Therefore, the ink-jet recording sheet is suitable as a recording sheet for an ink-jet printer.

An image recording device is an image recording device for exposing a photosensitive material to record image. It is characterized in that the device is provided with a receiving mechanism for receiving the photosensitive material, a first conveying mechanism for conveying the photosensitive material drawn from the receiving mechanism in a first direction and positioning at any position of plurality of conveying positions on the photosensitive material conveying path extending in a second direction crossing with the first direction, and a second conveying mechanism for conveying single or more photosensitive materials positioned on the conveying positions on the conveying path along the second direction by using the first conveying mechanism. The image recording device can distribute the multiple rows of photographic printing papers by simple component, and further can correctly convey the photosensitive material to be conveyed through the conveying path.

The invention relates to a method for recreating after a photographic work is printed on rice paper, which comprises the following steps: a piece of rice paper is selected; data of a photographic work is selected according to the code requirements, debugged in a computer through the front-end flow which is controlled by a color management system built by software and hardware, and stored as data for special output; multicolored mineral pigment ink and a high-precision ink jet printer which is matched with the multicolored mineral pigment ink are selected, and the selected photographic work can be printed and outputted on the rice paper by means of standardized mass production through the rear-end flow which is controlled by the built color management system of the computer; and secondary creation or creation for a plurality of times is performed on the rice paper with the outputted work, and finally a rice paper photographic printing artwork is formed. The method has the advantages that the method breaks through the image copying technology in common meaning and the traditional expression form of the traditional Chinese painting art, realizes harmonious fusion of a plurality of types of art and the copying technology, greatly prolongs the retention period of the photographic work, improves the value of the photographic work, and overcomes the defect of vulnerability when the photographic work uses a piece of printing paper. Simultaneously, the global universality of the photographic work can improve the value of the Chinese rice paper and carry forward the culture of the Chinese rice paper in the world.

An image forming apparatus capable of recording image information and additional information added separately from the image information to a photographic printing medium is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: image information acquisition means for acquiring the image information, additional information acquisition means for acquiring the additional information, and recording means for recording the image information acquired by the image information acquisition means and the additional information acquired by the additional information acquisition means to the photographic printing medium, wherein the recording means can record the additional information by laminating a first transparent material that absorbs light of a specific wavelength and a second transparent material that does not absorb the light on a recording surface of the photographic printing medium.

In a printing system for printing image data based on an order from a client, a character and / or a simple image desired by a user can be printed on a print. The user describes the content of the order in order information and transfers the order information to a laboratory when he / she orders printing of the image data. At this time, the character and / or the simple image to be printed on the print is described as character image information in the order information. The laboratory prints the image data based on the order information and prints the character and / or the simple image on the back of the print or on a white fringe or the like, based on the character image information described in the order information.

A photographic printing system includes an input unit for inputting an image for making a photographic print thereof from an image storage medium storing the image in the form of an image file, a photographic printer for making the photographic print based on the image inputted by the input unit and a writer unit for writing image data of the image from which the photographic print has been made, into a recording medium. The writer unit writes into the recording medium a file name assigned to the image data when recorded in the image storage medium, either as an information file separate from and in correlation with the image file or as a portion of the data of the image file.

This invention relates to a color photo development method, which comprises the following steps: a to feed the printing paper to the feeding platform; b to absorb photographic printing paper on the feeding platform to apron band; c to expose in steps, wherein, the LCD or feeding platform moves all-round direction and exposes in steps, the exposure time is 0.2 to 10 seconds; d the photographic paper enters the development machine for development. This invention adopts exposure in steps and covers a transparent grating on the surface of the LCD, and uses grating dell displacement step light sensation, which improves the light sensitive picture elements with nine times and solves the clearance of the digital photos.

A photographic printing system for anodizing coloring refractory metals using computer graphic imaging is provided. The system comprises a plurality of film masks and a metal plate. Registration marks are formed in each of the film masks and the metal plate for aligning the film masks and the metal plate for controlling the color application in multicolored line art images. A method for anodizing coloring refractory metals using computer graphic imaging is also provided.

A base paper 1 is coated with a cast-coating liquid with an air knife coater 2, then the cast-coating liquid is gelled by flowing an acid solution on a roll in a dipping coater 3, next the paper is passed through a nip 6 between a press roll 4 and a casting drum 5, and finally the base paper is pressed and dried with a heated mirror-finished casting drum 5. By employing a liquid including at least colloidal silica, plastic pigment, polyvinyl alcohol(PVA) and polydiallyldimethyl ammonium chloride (poly-Dadmac) as the cast-coating liquid, the photograph printing high gloss ink jet recording paper having the same or more degree of gloss obtained by the conventional two layers to be coated and excellent in jetting characteristics through only one layer to be coated is obtained.

The present invention relates to a hot-press transferring method. In particular, it is a method for transferring image onto cup surface. It includes the following steps: (a) attaching photographic printing paper to said cup surface; (b). using a bubble expelling device to expel the bubble between the photographic printing paper and cup surface; (c) after step (b) firstly using a preheating device to preheat said photographic printing paper and cup surface and moving the image of said photographic printing paper to the front of cup surface, and using a bubble expelling device to expel the bubble between said photographic printing paper and cup surface; (d). after step (c) using a heating device to heat the said photographic printing paper and said cup surface to transfer the image of said photographic printing paper onto the cup surface; and (e). after step (d) removing said photographic printing paper from said cup surface.

A copy printer with a translational cam mechanism for driving the paper pressing drum to lift vertically is disclosed. A horizontally sliding translational cam has concave surface and convex surface on its profile to control the stroke of driven part. When said cam is sliding on a track, the roller on the drum supporter is rolling on the profile of cam to make the drum supporter and in turn the drum to move vertically, so close to or far from the printing head.

An image forming apparatus capable of recording image information and additional information added separately from the image information to a photographic printing medium is disclosed. The image forming apparatus includes: image information acquisition means for acquiring the image information, additional information acquisition means for acquiring the additional information, and recording means for recording the image information acquired by the image information acquisition means and the additional information acquired by the additional information acquisition means to the photographic printing medium, wherein the recording means can record the additional information by applying a transparent material that absorbs light of a specific wavelength to the area that does not absorb the light on a recording surface of the photographic printing medium.

To provide a photographic printing device which guarantees the efficiency of using the device and then provides a photographic image suiting user's taste. The photographic printing device for editing and printing photographic acquired images generated by repeating photographic processing until attaining given photographic processing limit time includes: a finish control means which counts remaining time by decrementing the photographic processing limit time and controls so that the photographic processing may be finished when the remaining time satisfies a finish condition; and a means which counts photographic acquired images or the number of performing times of photographic processing. The finish control means determines whether or not the generated photographic acquired images or the number of performing times of photographic processing and the remaining time satisfy a predetermined relief condition. When they satisfy the condition, the finish control means resets the remaining time and determines the finish of photography based on the reset remaining time thereafter.

The present invention relates to a photograph-printing method for one-step image-forming photographic printing paper and photograph-printing machine. It includes paper storing box, transferring component for transferring the one-step image-forming photographic printing paper drawn out from the paper storing box into the position under the display screen, computer or digital camera as video input equipment connected with display by means of display interface to make the video input equipment can display image on the display, then the light-emitting time of display can be controlled to expose the photographic paper, finally the end photograph can be obtained.

A method and a device are provided for automating receipt of orders for additional printing of a photographic print, including order information relating to desired image processing. In a print order receiving machine, when a photographic print is inserted, an image of the photographic print is read and displayed on a monitor (steps 150, 152). When order conditions are inputted, an image which is processed on the basis of the order conditions is displayed on the monitor (steps 154 through 158). Further, when input of the order conditions is completed, the order conditions and order information based on the order conditions are set. The set order information is printed onto a photographic print as an invisible two-dimensional bar code. Copying processing of the photographic print is carried out on the basis of the order information which is read from the photographic print.

A printing apparatus configured to transfer ink on a color ink ribbon to a print medium to thereby create a color photographic print, includes: a ribbon switching rotary mechanism into which a plurality of the color ink ribbons are loaded, and the mechanism configured to set a desired one of the color ink ribbons to a photographic printing position; a ribbon detection device configured to detect the color ink ribbons loaded into the mechanism, the ribbon detection device detecting whether the desired and set color ink ribbon is a single-color ribbon or a multi-color ribbon; a ribbon head-detecting device configured to perform head-detecting of the multi-color ribbon in a case where the multi-color ribbon is loaded into the mechanism; and a control device configured to control the mechanism and the ribbon head-detecting device so as to suit each of a time of photographic printing using the single-color ribbon and a time of photographic printing using the multi-color ribbon.

Systems, methods and media for providing photographic printing are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and / or software for providing photographic printing at a photo lab to a user on a user device are disclosed. Embodiments include a method that generally includes receiving a photo file and user information from a user on a user device and determining the location of the user based on the received user information. The method may also generally include selecting a photo lab based on the determined location of the user and transmitting the photo file to a photo lab server associated with the selected photo lab. In some embodiments, the method may also generally include transmitting photographic printing information to the user, including an indication of the selected photo lab.

A bottom base for cosmetic products, with an upper surface intended to constitute a support for the cosmetic product and a lower surface intended to rest on the bottom of an outer container, has at least one of said surfaces that is decorated with decorations made by thermal sublimation photographic printing. A package for cosmetic products having an outer container and a bottom base thus made is also disclosed.

The invention relates to a program, an information storage medium, a photographic printing device and a photographic printing method. An overlapped photographic processing unit of the photographic printing device takes the extraction color as background and the image of an object that is positively photographed by a camera portion as current image, generates a current extracted image where the background is extracted from the current image in real time, store the current extracted image as the previous intake image in a storage portion in a preset time, receives a relationship indication input indicative of the relationship between the current extracted image and the previous intake image, determines the relationship between the current extracted image and the previous intake image according to the relationship indication input, generates the instant browse image output to a display portion after real-time syntheses, determines the relationship between the current extracted image and the previous intake image according to the relationship indication input, and generates the overlapped photographic image correspondent to the instant browse image in the given time.