Electronic printer or scanner using a fiber optic bundle and an array light emission device

摘要

An electronic printer employing a fiber optic bundle arranged linearly at a first face and in an area array in a second face also employs an area light emission device for directing light signals into the fibers of the second face simultaneously in a manner to faithfully reproduce an image at the first face even though there was no predetermined relationships between the ends of the same fibers in the two faces. An initialization procedure establishes the addresses of the cells which correspond to pixels in the first face. Data representative of the on or off state of the cells is stored in memory and applied to all the enabled cells simultaneously also. The arrangement is usefull for similar scanners.