Throwback Thursday Artroom Edition

[RICK STEFANICK]

who remembers Photo strip

[Frog]

who remembers Photo strip

Is that the one-letter-at-a-time photographic type setter shot from rolled negatives of alphabets?

[Sbrem]

Yep, we had one of those, one of the later versions, Fox seems to ring a bell as a model or a brand. One day, one of my friends with a Mac Plus, and application that was all code, had me come over to "see this!" Perfectly arched text in 90 seconds, holy sh!t! I've used everything listed so far. When my partner and I opened our shop in '92, we were printing a lot of election signs on a Filbar. A couple of years later we bought a Roland CAMM-1 plotter (which we just retired this very week) to cut our films out or Rubylith, and Amberlith if they were out of stock on our roll size...

Steve

[tonypep]

Not sure if these are what you are looking for Tony:  https://www.artsupplywarehouse.com/finelineDisplay.php?id=292030  I have used them in the past to draw directly on the screen.  For those who have never tried this it is an amazing way to make a screen.  You draw directly on the screen and achieve incredible tonals, coat with white glue and the wax crayon resists the glue.  Been awhile since I've done this.  The hard part is you can never make another screen like it again.

The true meaning of custom....

Thanks Al lot of options there any suggestions?

[gotshirtz001]

Spot color separations were always a 2-step process.
Step 1: use the gigantic camera to make a film positive (shoot negative, flip in developer, dry, reshoot)
2. Cut/weed rubylith for each color then reexpose against positive for butt reg negative (spot color positive)

Who remembers buying sheets of adhesive-backed halftone?


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[Frog]

Spot color separations were always a 2-step process.
Step 1: use the gigantic camera to make a film positive (shoot negative, flip in developer, dry, reshoot)
2. Cut/weed rubylith for each color then reexpose against positive for butt reg negative (spot color positive)

Who remembers buying sheets of adhesive-backed halftone?


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You mean ?

[RICK STEFANICK]

no the orange stuff( similar to amber lith) that they would use the water with. We used it in like 1991. I cannot find any info on it anywhere.

[Frog]

no the orange stuff( similar to amber lith) that they would use the water with. We used it in like 1991. I cannot find any info on it anywhere.

A stencil material? Perhaps an indirect method, first shot and developed, then applied to the screen?

[StinkyDaddy]

All good times.

Did anyone else have the Vertical Arch program back around '89?
It would set your text on arch, like what illy or corel does now but it was a separate program.
We used Pagemaker and Freehand at the time.
You could grab the handle on a vector point and it would take a while to catch up on the Mac SE's we were using.

[GaryG]

no the orange stuff( similar to amber lith) that they would use the water with. We used it in like 1991. I cannot find any info on it anywhere.

Yeah!
I wanted to reply, but the type thing threw me. Orange film with a clear liner.
Burn art, wash out orange like emulsion, dry, burn screen from what's left over with orange hardened material.
Good for reversals and things. We used regularly in the late 80's.

Kind of like the current "indirect" film method
http://autotype.macdermid.com/products/57-httpswwwmacdermidconnectcomfive_star

[Sbrem]

Spot color separations were always a 2-step process.
Step 1: use the gigantic camera to make a film positive (shoot negative, flip in developer, dry, reshoot)
2. Cut/weed rubylith for each color then reexpose against positive for butt reg negative (spot color positive)

Who remembers buying sheets of adhesive-backed halftone?


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All day every day for quite some time... until Fotostrip (or was is PhotoStrip?) came around, it was rubylith you cut photographically. Make the film positive, put it in the screen exposure unit with a sheet of this stuff, and burn like a screen. Then wash out those key lines with a hose. It was very handy.

Steve

We had an 18 x 22 NuArc Horizontal then, 9' bed...

[RICK STEFANICK]

YEA, That's the stuff. It was like a revolution at the time

[BP]

When I started in the biz I did screens and worked in a darkroom doing camera shots!

[RICK STEFANICK]

When I started in the biz I did screens and worked in a darkroom doing camera shots!

Exactly. That Foto strip stuff changed all that. Then came computer programs.. That was a long time ago. WOW

[Frog]

I think that , besides color separations, the biggest change in ease came with half tones.
btw, twice in my career I had a job running the camera, and both times was let go just as they brought color separation in-house, rather than being able to really up my game.
Now, of course, in the computer age, all a moot point.