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AN ALPHA-NUMERIC CHARACTER GENERATOR FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY EXPOSING A PLURALITY OF CHARACTERS TO A LIGHT SENSITIVE MEDIUM COMPRISING: A SOURCE OF PLANE POLARIZED LIGHT A LIGHT SENSITIVE RECORDING MEDIUM AN ARRAY OF ALPHA-NUMERIC CHARACTERS ON A SHEET OF MATERIAL POSITIONED BETWEEN THE LIGHT SOURCE AND THE LIGHT SENSITIVE MEDIUM THE SHEET OF MATERIAL CONTAINING ALPHA-NUMERIC CHARACTERS HAVING LIGHT TRANSMITTING CHARACTERISTICS WHEREBY LIGHT TRANSMITTED FROM THE LIGHT SOURCE TO THE LIGHT SENSITIVE MEDIUM IS FORMED INTO THE ALPHA-NUMERIC CONFIGURATIONS SAID ARRAY OF ALPHA-NUMERIC CHARACTERS COMPRISING ROWS OF CHARACTERS OF IDENTICAL SHAPE AND COLUMNS OF CHARACTES OF A PLURALITY OF SHAPES A LIGHT VALVE POSITIONED ADJACENT TO THE ARRAY OF ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS AND INCLUDING AN ELECTRO-OPTIC CRYSTAL CAPABLE OF OPERATION IN A LONGITUDINAL MODE A TRANSPARENT MEMBER ON EACH SIDE OF THE CRYSTAL AND HAVING PARALLEL CONDUCTIVE TRANSPARENT BANDS ON THE SURFACE THEREOF AND IN CONTACT WITH THE CRYSTAL THE TRANSPARENT MEMBERS BEING ORIENTED WITH RESPECT TO EACH OTHER SO THAT THE PARALLEL BANDS ON ONE MEMBER ARE SUBSTANTIALLY NORMAL TO THE BANDS ON THE OTHER MEMBER A POLARIZATION ANALYZER ELEMENT POSITIONED ADJACENT TO THE TRANSPARENT MEMBER ON THE SIDE OF THE CRYSTAL OPPOSITE TO THE LIGHT SOURCE THE PLANE OF TRANSMISSION OF THE ANALYZING ELEMENT BEING DIFFERENT FROM THE PLANE OF POLARIZATION OF THE LIGHT SOURCE AND MEANS TO APPLY ELECTRICAL SIGNALS TO THE CONDUCTIVE BANDS INPUT LOGIC MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID MEANS TO APPLY ELECTRICAL SIGNALS TO SAID CONDUCTIVE BANDS TO THEREBY SIMULTANEOUSLY ACTIVATE AREAS OF THE CRYSTAL CORRESPONDING TO THE LOCATION OF SPECIFIC CHARACTERS IN THE ARRAY AND OPTICAL MEANS TO IMAGE THE CHARACTERS OF THE ALPHANUMERIC ARRAY ON THE LIGHT SENSITIVE MEDIUM IN LINE.