Re: CGP was Re: Big neg (was: Cyanotypes on glass)

Hi:

At risk of being overly persistent - I'm surprised its not available.
I buy my CGP through our local Heidelberg prepress shop. I order by
phone, pay with a credit-card, and its couriered to me from their regional
warehouse. I've never tried buying directly from Polychrome.

If there is any sort of printing/newspaper industry in your area - then
someone is using a lith film locally. We have a daily newspaper, a large
regional printer and a whole range of smaller print shops. I'm sure all
of them use some sort of lith film - likely 100's of sheets of this stuff
are used on a daily basis here. I imagine this isn't uncommon in any urban
center.

The trick is finding out what they use and who supplies it. I believe
completely digital platemaking is still prohibitively expensive for all
but the large operations.

The smallest/cheapest "form" of CGP available is 100 sheets of 8x10 which
costs around US$50.00

You could try talking to your local newspaper, or prepress shos.

Gord

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Galina wrote:

> Thank you, Gordon for the information!
>
> I have been in contact with Kodak, Agfa, Konica and all the graphic
> material wholesalers all over Scandinavia in order to get a source for
> lith film, but they all refuse to import that film for me as I only
> wish to buy small quantities at a time. No one else uses it here
> anymore. They have to order it from other places, so they would not
> order just one roll for me.
>
> That is the reason why I am giving it up and heading towards digital
> printing just as all the rest of the world. Sad story, I loved working
> with lith film in a pinhole.
>
> Thank you, Sam and Tom for the advises. I appreciate it.
>
> My logic tells me that I should not use paper neg this time. But teach
> me the trick about removing paper texture, just in case, Sam! I hope it
> is not about pealing off the paper base? I think it is not worth it.
> Lith film is not so much more expensive than paper and the time one is
> using on preparation of paper neg together with the extended exposure
> times during contact processing make it not worth the trouble. I can
> scan transparencies on a flat scanner as well, if I decide to do it.
> Dram scanning gives better results though.
>
> I am planning to contact copy in the sun later, so the ideal would be
> to use paper final size in a pinhole and contact copy directly. If I
> could work nearby home, I would have chosen that. But I am going to the
> west coast of Norway, driving around and staying at hotels. Not so easy
> to reload a big pinhole, not so easy to develop the tests.
>
> I am still trying to find the most effective way to go.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galina.
>
> www.galina.no
>
>

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Gordon J. Holtslander Dept. of Biology
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Tel (306) 966-4433 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
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Received on Tue Dec 9 20:00:28 2003