Printing – 20 years of Printing – Part 8
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009Printing – 20 years of Printing – Part 8 – 2nd March 2009
The use of galley cameras for producing four colour separations was not uncommon in the late 80s and early 90s and this was a complex and highly skilled art. Panchromatic film using filters and tri masks and gelatine screens with rulings very rarely more than 135 lines to the inch; though more often 120 lpi was used as printing blankets and press set ups struggled to achieve results promised with higher rulings. By 1990, it was now the camera’s turn to enjoy the experience of freefall into oblivion. Drum scanners were now widely available, and though very expensive the results they produced were more accurate and consistent than those done by hand on a galley camera. Initially, the scanners would image to film using a photomultiplier tube (PMT), a system that could detect low levels of light, and multiply the light to strength capable of imaging the film. In the early 1990s, charge coupled devices (CCDs) were now coming to market and a classic Betamax style battle was on. The colour separations, however produced, were still being mounted onto foils and integrated with the line work shot separately straight to film.
When Adobe with its desktop publishing technology burst on the scene in the early 1980s it, like many new technology launches, came with a huge amount of expectation, often described as ‘inflated expectations’ – a peak arrives fairly quickly followed by what is describes as a slide down ‘the trough of disappointment’. Ultimately though, if the technology is sound and research and development is preserved with, the product reaches a plateau of productivity.
To be continued…
See Part one, two, three, four, five, six and seven of this blog – Printing – 20 years of change
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