Patent ID: 6867847

Claim:
An apparatus for producing projected images in different size formats on a light sensitive material, wherein the projected image represents graphic information that is divided into individual pixels, and wherein further the image is projected in the form of partial images that are laterally offset relative to each other, said apparatus comprising: a transmissive device for producing said partial images, a light source for generating light rays that pass through the transmissive device, an illumination device for guiding the light rays along a plurality of mutually parallel light paths through the transmissive device, and a projection objective for projecting the light rays representing the partial images onto the light-sensitive material, wherein the illumination device bundles the light rays into light beams before they pass through the transmissive device, and the projection objective projects onto the light-sensitive material only those light rays that run at least approximately parallel to the optical axis of the projection objective wherein there is substantially no overlap between adjacent partial images on the light sensitive material.