Color Film Recorder (Cfr) & Camera Back - Polaroid ID-3000 Repair Manual

Polaroid ID3000 Service Manual Description
Color Film Recorder (CFR) and Camera Back
The Polaroid CI-5000 CFR (Figure 1-9) prints full-color ID card images on Polaroid instant
film, from digital signals from the Matrox Illuminator Board in the System computer. (An ID-
3000 System equipped with a CI-5000 Color Film Recorder is designated as an ID-3000F
System.)
Images contain the portrait, signature, text and other distinctive format elements, and are
ready for die-cutting and laminating 90 seconds after the start of the exposure cycle.
A single camera back on the CI-5000 can produce either one or two ID cards per sheet of
film. When two cards per film sheet are to be made, the CI-5000 electronically stores the first
card image in memory until the second card image has been recorded. Both images are then
printed on the film sheet when the EXPOSE command is used. (To print a card after only one
image has been exposed, the FORCE command is used; see Section 2, "Making an identifica-
tion card", step 15.)
A front-panel LED flashes during the exposure process, when EXPOSE is selected after the
second exposure has been made in a 2-up system (or FORCE is selected after one exposure).
When exposure is completed, the front-panel "Pull Film" LED flashes and an audible beep
sounds, signaling the operator to pull the white tab and then the yellow tab of the exposed
frame from the camera back. When the 90-second film development time has elapsed, another
LED lights to inform the operator to peel the film negative from the print.
Figure 1-9 Color Film Recorder Assembly used in ID-3000F System
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