Re: Is light unit after-glow a problem?
Laura Fink-Green (rdold@westminster.ac.uk)
Mon, 2 Dec 1996 20:31:41 +0000 (GMT)
On a personal level, I can say YES, light unit after-glow is a problem. I
spent far too many days wearing RayBans at work (post-pre-press in a
offset printing company...okay, stripping, plating and bluelining, to be
literal) and still having headaches.
As to what is a plate burner, re: Terry -if this is the question still up
for grabs-
the best way I can explain it is: big (1 metre x 1 metre) vacuum frame
with some light source that can only be described as beyond the sun. Used
primarily for burning images into metal plates for printing presses, but
also burning images onto fun paper that turns blue in sunlight (I wanted
to do a project with them, but finding a frame and the paper in
education...good luck) as well as colour proofing and chromatecs (more
fun for people bored with 'normal' things).
pretty simple to operate, hell to keep clean (little arms can't reach the
dust in the back corners and scratches our specialty)
anyway, my pence worth.
onward...
laura