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

 From my experience, you cannot buy directly from KPG ("Kodak polychrome
graphics"). They will transfer you to a sales dept., who will then give
you a list of distributors in your area.
Not to prove anybody wrong, but there is contact info for KPG in both
Finland and Norway. Check out

http://www.kpgraphics.com/EUR/products/buy/index.html

for more info.
All the best,
k

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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Received on Wed Dec 10 08:11:30 2003