Re: question about NuArc exposure unit

[Erie Patsellis <erie@shelbyvilledesign.com>]

Typically called "Chipboard", not the best, as Sam mentioned, if you 
have a sign shop near you, see if you can scrounge up a piece of 3mm or 
so Sintra PVC sheet (they may have other brands). rigid enough for using 
under a plate, we use something similar on our plateburner at work.


erie

David wrote:
> I'm doing photopolymer process with Toyobo plates and also with ImagOn 
> film. And I'm using a NuArc exposure unit for exposing my plates. The 
> person who set up the unit in our studio but a piece of pressboard on 
> the bed of the unit, so it lays under your plate and film. When I say 
> pressboard, I mean a stiff "paper" (like a thin matboard) that they 
> use in stiff mailing envelops or that you might find when you unwrap a 
> new dress shirt--sort of cardboard without the corrugation.
>
> I'm wondering if this is the best material to use on the bed of the 
> unit, or would it be better to use something else like maybe sheets of 
> print paper, or maybe nothing at all?
>
> Thanks, David