Film carrier for photographic printer

摘要

A film carrier has a film press plate pivotably coupled to a mask plate and openable relative to the mask plate. While sandwiching a photographic filmstrip between the film press plate and the mask plate, the mask plate is two-dimensionally slid on a base plate to position a cropping area in alignment with the center of the print light. The mask plate has a wear resistant sheet cemented to the bottom surface thereof which facilitates smooth sliding of the mask plate on the base plate. The mask plate also has three permanent magnets. After sliding, the mask plate is held onto the base plate by magnetic attraction of two of the three magnets. The third magnet is used to hold the film press plate onto the mask plate.