Apparatus for recording characters on a photographic record medium including spaced feed and takeup reels for carrying a roll of the medium. A cylindrical support disposed between the reels supports the record medium. A carriage is controllably movable opposite the cylindrical support and in a direction along the cylindrical axis of the latter. A recording head on the carriage has a radiation emitter device for emitting intensity modulated radiation toward the cylindrical support along a scan line which is in a plane intersecting such cylindrical axis.
