Antique equipment club

[cleveprint]

[I can't believe it even exists and is sold anymore. (seriously, who buys one??) It's like a Ford dealership today selling an 80's station wagon.
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Nothing related to a Centurian, but I would buy a new 80's station wagon in a heartbeat if they still sold them. I wish any car company made station wagons still!

[GaryG]

How about an 80's Harco that was "brush" repainted by the used salesman's kid?
Yes painted the two Harco light and dark browns. It matched pretty good!
That dryer lasted me for another 10 years after of course replacing all six heater panels as needed.

Also drove 200+ miles to pick it up along with a Harco exposure unit in a -Horse trailer. 
The owner said, "Sure you can borrow it, the only rent I'll charge is if you help Ray grease the wheels. Ok!

Also, also, how about a '68 red station wagon that my dad didn't change out the winter tires one year.
Guess the treads were wearing down... But going too and fro from McyD's every day in the summer,
they sure made a loud embarrassing whizzing sound for a teenager. Turned up the 8-track Molly Hatchet and rode
that thing proud! 

[scott316]

We took this with us when we bought a bunch of old equipment. Is anyone using something like this ?

[Frog]

You and I may be the last two to still have a camera (but I actually used mine, LOL!) Keep meaning to toss it.
I was brought up on the big two-room horizontal jobs, but many of us space-starved T-Shirt and duplicating/offset hacks in the '70's and '80's used the more compact vertical ones.

Besides the bother of film and developing, newer members of the industry will never get is the HUGE difference and absolute ease in making halftones today.
We had to actually shoot through a special very expensive bumpy sheet to change a continuous tone to halftone, and then tweak highlights and shadows in the developing trays.

[alan802]

If that "thing" above didn't say NUARC on it I could have been told it belonged on the space station and I would have never questioned it.  That is insane/awesome/funny all at the same time.

[scott316]

If someone had the space to have an old school show room of all the advances that have made screen printing better and easier, I would donate it lol

The show room might help some people from complaining about how hard it is to print these days lol jk

[scott316]

If someone had the space to have an old school show room of all the advances that have made screen printing better and easier, I would donate it lol

The show room might help some people from complaining about how hard it is to print these days lol jk

I know it's crazy. Funny thing is that it is in better shape than some 2010 models haha

[mimosatexas]

It would be pretty cool if there was a screen printing museum.  I would visit...

[Evo]

You and I may be the last two to still have a camera (but I actually used mine, LOL!) Keep meaning to toss it.
I was brought up on the big two-room horizontal jobs, but many of us space-starved T-Shirt and duplicating/offset hacks in the '70's and '80's used the more compact vertical ones.

Besides the bother of film and developing, newer members of the industry will never get is the HUGE difference and absolute ease in making halftones today.
We had to actually shoot through a special very expensive bumpy sheet to change a continuous tone to halftone, and then tweak highlights and shadows in the developing trays.

We used to get films from a shop in Berkeley that was owned by our shop manager's husband. (they were both screen printers but worked apart). He had a nice old camera that took up 3 different rooms in his shop.

His films were amazing in quality, and I always got a contact negative of the positive to use for masking for color separations later.

Those were the days. Rubilith, swivel knives, Letraset sheets with all the letters there but THE ONE YOU NEEDED....


Glad that's all over.

[GaryG]

Add me to a third member of the Stat camera family in the dark corner of the shop.
Bought it about 20 years ago and my wife said you better use that….
Guess what, nope.

Took a good while to go from laser paper to inkjet having reservations, but
best move ever on film for us. Anyone still using cans of spray toner?

[Evo]

Anyone still using cans of spray toner?

LOL.

[StuJohnston]

I am having a hard time understanding why a stat camera needs more than one room, the ones I have seen in photos look large, but are all in one room.

[Inkworks]

I worked at a shop where we had a multi-room horizontal camera, shot films up to 50" x 100" Mostly 4cp. stuff. The guy who ran the camera was a wizard with the thing, I never did learn much about it. Voodoo and black magic from what I could tell.

[Frog]

I am having a hard time understanding why a stat camera needs more than one room, the ones I have seen in photos look large, but are all in one room.

The larger ones generally have the copy board (and its lights) in one room (could be the art room) and the film board in the darkroom.

[Gabe]

Definitely those Rototex machines are built for life
`till death do us part.