69 results about "Photographic printing" patented technology

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.

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 ink set for inkjet recording and an inkjet recording method in the present invention, which can provide a recorded image having high quality and ensure that the obtained image can maintain the image quality with less change in the color balance even when stored in an oxidative atmosphere, and which includes at least three kinds of inkjet inks, each of which includes a coloring agent dissolved or dispersed in an aqueous or oily medium and has a maximum absorption spectrum in a spectral absorption region different from each other, wherein, when a photographic printing is performed on a reflection-type image-receiving medium using the ink set and a forced discoloration rate constant with an ozone gas of each ink is determined in each printed region of said at least three kinds of inks, the ratio of any two of the forced discoloration rate constants is from 0.5 to 2.0.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

A portable printing apparatus for printing photographs using a portable printing device and a portable electronic device wherein the portable printing apparatus includes a first and second opening, the first opening being adapted to receive the portable printing device such that the photograph, once printed, is discharged from the second opening, the apparatus further including a support strap to position the apparatus and the portable printing device in a generally horizontal orientation for printing the photographs.