Recording of data

Claim 1

IN A SYSTEM FOR RECORDING A FIRST CHARACTER ARRAY COMPOSED OF ONE OR MORE LINES OF VARIABLE CHARACTERS IN SUPERPOSED RELATION UPON A SECOND CHARACTER ARRAY COMPOSED OF A PLURALITY OF LINES OF A FIXED ARRANGEMENT OF SUCH CHARACTERS FOR SUBSEQUENT PRINTING OUT OF THE CHARACTERS OF BOTH ARRAYS IN THEIR PROPER RELATIVE POSITIONS, THE COMBINATION COMPRISING, MEANS PROVIDING A SIGNAL INPUT CHARACTER CODE CHARACTERISTIC OF THE VARIABLE CHARACTERS DESIRED TO BE RECORDED, A CHARACTER GENERATOR CONTROLLED BY SAID INPUT CHARACTER CODE FOR PRODUCING THE DESIRED CHARACTERS IN CODE FORM AND IN A SEQUENTIAL MANNER, MEANS CONNECTED TO THE OUTPUT OF SAID CHARACTER GENERATOR FOR CONVERTING THE CODE FORM OF SAID SEQUENTIALLY PRODUCED VARIABLE CHARACTERS INTO ONE OR MORE LINE IMAGES IN A LINEBY-LINE MANNER IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SIGNAL INPUT CHARACTER CODE, MEANS ESTABLISHING SAID SECOND CHARACTER ARRAY AS A STANDARD IMAGE AND PROJECTING THE SAME IN A LINE BY LINE MANNER ONTO A LIGHT-SENSITIVE SURFACE WHICH MOVES IN A DIRECTION TRANSVERSE TO THE DIRECTION OF THE PROJECTED LINES OF CHARACTERS OF SAID SECOND CHARACTER DISPLAY, MEANS FOR ALSO PROJECTING THE LINE IMAGES OF SAID VARIABLE CHARACTERS OF SAID FIRST CHARACTER DISPLAY IN A LINE-BY-LINE MANNER ONTO SAID MOVING LIGHT-SENSITIVE SURFACE IN THE SAME TRANSVERSE DIRECTION AS SAID CHARACTER LINES OF SAID SECOND CHARACTER DISPLAY ARE PROJECTED, MEANS ESTABLISHING VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL RECORDING ADDRESSES AND MEANS ACTUATED BY. AND VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL RECORDING ADDRESSES FOR CONTROLLING RESPECTIVELY THE PRODUCTIODN OF SAID LINE IMAGES OF SAID VARIABLE CHARACTERS AND THE HORIZONTAL POSITION OF THE CHARACTERS ON THE LINE SUCH THAT SAID LINE IMAGES WILL BE SUPERIMPOSED ACCORDING TO A PREDETERMINED LAYOUT UPON THE PROJECTED LINE IMAGES OF SAID SECOND CHARACTER DISPLAY.