Slide/film writers - summary

From: Jan Murton (j.murton@RCA.AC.UK)
Date: Fri Mar 22 2002 - 03:47:50 CST

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Date:         Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:47:50 +0000
From: Jan Murton <mailto:j.murton@RCA.AC.UK>
Subject:      Slide/film writers - summary
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    <pre> I have summarized the responses I received to my request for feed-back on slide writers. Many thanks to all those who responded.

    - Try contacting SYGRAF inc. http://www.sygraf.com/
                       300 de la Montagne
                       Montréal, H3C 2B1
                       Tel. (514) 846-9786
                       Fax. (514) 846-9788 I don't know the personnel at this time, or if they subscribe to Imagelib
    (doubt it) but they do commercial Kodak CDs and I think they produce slides from digitized image data in a big way. I saw demos on writing to slides yeas ago.

    - We've been using a Polaroid HR 6000 film recorder for about 6 years. It does very nice work with Powerpoint slides.

    - We use a Lasergraphics Mark III DPM. To learn more about this model go to: http://www.lasergraphics.com/pages/mk3dpm.htm The unit cost around $10,000 USD and it has many features that are not available by other manufactures in this price range. We have the unit set up on a Apple Macintosh platform and have it networked so we can print slides from multiple workstations around the building. It has been a great unit so far. (it is only 3 months old) It prints a roll of 36 exposures in approximately 1 hour. (approximately 2 minutes per exposure).

    - We have an LFR here. What would you like to know? It works fine, but people
     aren't using it as much as expected. About the only thing it has been used for is
     to create PowerPoint slides from the digital PowerPoint, in case the computers
     crash while presenting at a conference.

    - We never purchased a slide writer b/c it is rare that we get requests for slides. However we have had a vendor do this for us from time to time. We ftp the images to the vendor and they send us the slides for $4
    (US) per slide.

    - We use a film writer at the National Library of Australia. They are expensive but produce excellent results. To write 35mm film you'll need 4000 lines or more resolution writer. We found out that we are getting better and quicker results scanning transparencies and writing images to film than producing traditional film duplicates.

    - We had a Lasergraphics LFR for years that was bought before I arrived; pretty expensive to buy, however, and to repair ($1,200 for the last fix). It finally bit the dust this spring and we've just replaced it with a Polaroid ProPalette 7000 which we got for $4,000. So far we're very happy with its performance, and it's a lot easier to work with and quite a bit faster.

    Yes, the film and film processing are significant issues at about
    $7/roll for film and another $7 to process.

    We were hoping to just drop this as a service but we were so pestered that in the end we decided we'd better replace it.

    Jan Murton Slide Curator Royal College of Art Kensington Gore London SW7 2EU UK

    Tel: 020 7590 4226 Fax: 020 7590 4500

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