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

No, Gordon, I am sorry to say, but

everything is purely digital here in Norway too!

Some years ago I had pleasure of getting rests of lith materials from
local printing firms, but now they have either sold it all to me or
thrown out the rest of it, I have been calling nearly every firm in
Scandinavia (Oslo, Copenhagen and Stockholm, as I teach often there).

So for me the easiest is to order through websites, but as I said, it
turns to three times the original price due to taxes and shipping. It
is far too expensive to mail things from USA or Canada too. So I have
been ordering from Silveprint in London or taking materials with me
when traveling.

Galina.
www.galina.no

On Tuesday, Dec 9, 2003, at 16:40 Europe/Oslo, Gordon J. Holtslander
wrote:

>
> 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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