RE: Any ifo on Silver-Digaplate imagesetter film?

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From: Sam Wang (stwang@CLEMSON.EDU)
Date: 04/24/02-03:20:35 PM Z


At 12:10 PM -0700 4/24/02, Keith Gerling wrote:
>I could be wrong, but I think this is a film that is intended to be exposed
>with a quartz light source. Recently, I've been making the tour of the
>local print shops looking for large sized lith film. At one place, I
>excitedly approached an entire skid of large film boxes. I was told that it
>was quartz film, and I wouldn't be interested. Well, I WAS interested, and
>offered to buy a box that had the seal open. The owner of the shop opened
>up the box and started counting out the 30 x 40" sheets in full bright
>light. Not a good sign!

Not necessarily so. There are a numbers of films/papers, most with
names such as DAYLIGHT something, that are VERY low in sensitivity
and must be exposed under UV lights.

I always wanted to try using some of them with continuous-tone
developers to see if they would work as alternatives to contact
printing under enlargers. I would think that would be great
especially in demos to large groups, or with kids. Anyone knows more
about these materials?

Sam Wang


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