Photographic printing apparatus with means for generation of video signals

The present invention relates to a photographic printing apparatus for printing photographs from negative images. The apparatus has a source of illumination and an optical path directed through a negative frame window for imaging negative frames on photographic printing material. The apparatus further includes a plurality of color filters, displaceable into the optical path, for printing illumination control as well as a video sensor, also displaceable into the optical path, for generating video signals representing high resolution color images of an original negative frame. Apparatus is disclosed for acquiring video signals with high resolution in the optical path of a photographic printing device for point-by-point color video signal generation by means of a video image sensor which receives the original negative image. For generation of the video signals, a sufficiently high-resolution black and white video sensor () is used. The three color separations are delivered separately to the video sensor by means of a plurality of color filters () which are present for printer illumination control and are brought consecutively into their active setting.