Photographic, reprographic, and graphic apparatus and component parts and fittings thereof, namely, processors, exposure apparatus, film-handling apparatus, reprographic cameras;platesetters; film recording apparatus for converting and adding digital information or an analogue video signal onto slides; typesetting and image setting systems comprising computers,scanners, phototypesetters, printers, display screens, keyboards and software; ink jet printers; photographic and thermal data recording devices, namely, video-imagers and thermal printers; data transferring, recording, working-up and storing system comprising software, buffers, networking hardware and software, interfaces, workstations, storage disks; computer software for production planning, production distribution management, output at print sites, publication management, electronic plate make-up, importing of production plans, production status monitoring, proofing, viewing, storing for re-output or archive, page distribution, image manipulation, load balancing, fault tolerance, and interface to input and output devices in the photographic, graphic or reprographic field