Man, I miss the good 'ole days of Reprographix
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2015 10:03 am
....cameras
My career was basically doing Printed Circuit boards for a couple of decades. The customer would supply a negative, and we would reverse it into a positive using your basic silver based film and a couple of trays of fixer and developer in a dark room with red safe lights. Fast forward a decade or so, and one would still use film in a darkroom and feed it into a prcessor which is chain driven throught a series of baths and your product comes out the other end. This type of film is always the best. Best resolution, no saw tooth edges etc.
Today, I manufacture dial faces for aircraft instruments and today's current film sucks. Nobody has a Repro camera anymore and i'm reduced to buying pigment inkject garbage. For t shirts this is works out fine, but if anybody has ever looked up close at pigment type film, the lines are'nt perfect and there's some scattered little dots floating around. I acutally have an old AGFA Repro camera, but I have no room to build a darkroom and the investment in developer stuff might not be a good idea since I only spend about a $100 a week from my current supplier. Toner on laser film is not a good option due to opaqueness. Does anybody do any high tech hi quality printing? What film do you use?
Regards
My career was basically doing Printed Circuit boards for a couple of decades. The customer would supply a negative, and we would reverse it into a positive using your basic silver based film and a couple of trays of fixer and developer in a dark room with red safe lights. Fast forward a decade or so, and one would still use film in a darkroom and feed it into a prcessor which is chain driven throught a series of baths and your product comes out the other end. This type of film is always the best. Best resolution, no saw tooth edges etc.
Today, I manufacture dial faces for aircraft instruments and today's current film sucks. Nobody has a Repro camera anymore and i'm reduced to buying pigment inkject garbage. For t shirts this is works out fine, but if anybody has ever looked up close at pigment type film, the lines are'nt perfect and there's some scattered little dots floating around. I acutally have an old AGFA Repro camera, but I have no room to build a darkroom and the investment in developer stuff might not be a good idea since I only spend about a $100 a week from my current supplier. Toner on laser film is not a good option due to opaqueness. Does anybody do any high tech hi quality printing? What film do you use?
Regards