Message-Id: <mailto:199410072330.SAA17753@library.wustl.edu> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 1994 10:12:19 +0800 From: Norm Landes - Marketing Communications <mailto:Norm.Landes@CORP.SUN.COM> Subject: Re: Film Recorder To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB <mailto:IMAGELIB@ARIZVM1.BITNET>
Christine writes: > Please excuse my ignorance but will someone explain exactly what a
> digital film recorder does? Does it produce a slide from a digitized
> computer image?
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In our production cycle, a service bureau takes one of our digital files and outputs that file through a film recorder onto film. We then use that film to create color separations for printing or for making color duplicates. The film we get out of the film recorders is any size depending on our end use and the original file size. The film sizes range from 35mm to 8"x10". (corresponding file sizes are from 500K to +200Mb)
The problem we have found with film recorders is that the service bureau does not always know what the file is supposed to look like so sometimes we go through extra cycles to get the correct color. As I understand it there are color management software programs coupled with flyte charts that can control this but I have only heard them used for the making of printing films via imagesetters. (imagesetters take digital files and create color separated printing films).
Norm Landes Photo Librarian Sun Microsystems
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