| 摘要 |
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 14 horizontally moves a selected one of a plurality of cassettes 31 to an autoloading section 15. The autoloading section 15 moves the cassette 31 after undergoing the horizontal movement to a plate feeding position through up-and-down movements, retrieves a plate P from that cassette 31, and feeds the plate P to an image recording section 16. The image recording section 16 winds the plate thus fed around a recording drum 36, records an image thereon by means of a recording head 37, and releases the recorded plate from the recording drum 36 so as to be ejected. While the image recording section 16 is recording an image on the plate, a CPU 11 receives control information C associated with a next plate, and causes the multi-cassette section 14 and the autoloading section 15 to sequentially operate by using the control information C. <IMAGE> |
