Re: UV units for alt processes demos
On Wednesday 12 March 2008 1:39:22 pm gumprint@gmail.com wrote: > Greetings > > Please direct me to a site for a portable (smallish or on wheels) UV unit > and/or plans for one. > Thanks! > > Carole > > Large Format and Alternative Photographic Processes Gathering (Meeting > monthly in Metro Washington DC) > www.photogathering.blogspot.com My first UV printer was very simple. I took a four lamp fluorescent strip lamp and screwed 3/4 inch thick pieces of plywood on the short ends. These acted as "legs" The pieces were as high as the fxiture sides plus ~ 4.5 inches The unit sat on a couter top- with the tubes facing down- the legs held the unit so the tubes were three inches above the couter top. I put 350 bl tubes in it. The four lamp fixture was just wide enough to expose an 8 inch wide strip. I was able to make 8 x10 with this. What's the biggest print you would want to make with one of these? Do you want to be able to expose more than one print at a time? I found that 4 ft UV tubes were cheapest locally. Gord -- Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology gordon.holtslander@usask.ca University of Saskatchewan Tel (306) 966-4433 112 Science Place FAX (306) 966-4461 Saskatoon, SK homepage.usask.ca/~gjh289 Canada, S7N 5E2
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