Throwback Thursday Artroom Edition

[Croft]

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.

was that the Ulano that you sandwiched between your film positive and exposed,rinsed then were able to weed out the area you didn't need , it was a butt print but was way faster than hand cutting ruby.

[Croft]

My wife and i have been in graphics from the 80' she and a few co workers had to laugh at the new hire who found this great thing called a Loop that really helped in seeing print quality, he was totally amazed.

[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.

was that the Ulano that you sandwiched between your film positive and exposed,rinsed then were able to weed out the area you didn't need , it was a butt print but was way faster than hand cutting ruby.

Thats it

[Sbrem]

I did a ton of work to learn to do halftones with a Caprock halftone screen. From a Kodak book, I learned about the highlight bump exposure, then the main exposure, followed by the shadow exposure, which was a darkroom safelight with a yellow bulb, on a stand. We had a horizontal camera, and the vacuum back opened to the right. So after the first two exposures, we'd open the door so it was 90° to the wall, move the yellow lamp into place, and make yet a third exposure, which would open the shadows with very little effect on the midtones or highlights. Arcane enough? I really can't thank Adobe enough for publishing Photoshop.
Regarding Autotype's PhotoStrip, if I remember correctly, you put the positive on the backing side and shot through the back. Any of you older guys remember that?

Steve

[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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[Doug B]

  Just moved my office a couple of weeks ago and finally threw away my halftone sheets and old ChartPac lettering. Usually all of one specific character was all used up and we still kept the sheets hoping we would use other letters that were left. Did a lot of hand-cut Rubylith and even Ulano lacquer film. Lots of fun to spend hours cutting a film and hoping against all hope you don't screw up adhering it to the multi-filament screen. Had a Nuarc VV-1418 vertical. Used less space that a horizontal.

[Doug S]

Great thread!  I remember my dad cutting the film and applying with water.  After we finished the print, we would soak them in bleach and he would send me to the carwash to spray out the stencil.  Every once in a great occasion, he would need films printed from the local paper and they would charge him like $15 each back in the late 70's. 

[Doug B]

  I did a little water based hand-cut film. Reminds me of a funny story... A young girl came into my dad's  shop and couldn't figure what she did wrong. She took a mail-order (there was no "online" then) course on silkscreening. They gave her some water based hand-cut film and supplied her with a couple colors of ink. Her screens almost instantly broke down. Turns out they sent her water based ink also. Duh!