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Large format positives
Hi looking for advice if anyone can help. Looking for a machine / RIP capable of outputting large films suitable for screenprint, need to be 40" wide, gratefull for any help/ advice.
Forgot to mention, has to be capable of outputting cmyk screenings as well as line work
Thanks Steve
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You could look at an Agfa Pro Film Setter – it’s a modified Epson. Could be what you
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we used to use an Epson 9800 for this purpose with great results
The only problem we had and it could potentially be a bigger problem now is that the printer struggle to ‘read’ certain makes of the clear film. When we bough the machine we were recommended a clear film that worked withit but after a couple of years it became obsolete…finding another one that the machine would recognise was a bit of a headache.
The sensors on the printer just couldn’t pick up some of the films and thought there was nothing loaded…we tried milkier films thinking that that would work but it didn’t…we eventually found one that did work and there seemed nothing visible to make it any different to ones that didn’t work
The machine that Jamie posted will no doubt be calibrated to work with a specific type of film…….you might just be tied to that particular film though because there was very little choice a couple of years ago
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t seps from scott fresener
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thanks all, think ill look into the epson 9800 option (glenn, did the machine need any / much altering to produce positives) or was it all worked out via the rip??
would i just use normal inks? – any idea what the film used was??
(forgot to mention, don’t really want to be throwing a fortune at this either)thanks again
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Steve…the machine didn’t need any altering at all to produce the positives
It just printed what it was told to print once we found a film that it would recognise
We used the Ultrachrome inks with it but you have to run it at a fairly high DPI to get the density
For halftone work we used to run it through Wasatch but if it was basic block colour we would print directly from Corel
As I say…we never got to the bottom of why the machine would detect some clear films and not others but it was a real headache finding one that did….I can’t remember the name of the one we used but we bought it from http://www.mclink.org.uk/
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