Ink Jet as replacement for film...sizing accuracy?

[schenkadere]

What i mean by not letting it drag is to not let the feeder pull the film from the roll, leave an allowance to the roll of film equal to or more to what you are going to print, or try to print in sheets, cut the desired size and try from there

that seems worth a try...I'll give the sheet thing a whirl when I get a chance.

[schenkadere]

I think I'm going to simply stick with my filmsetter. The price of good clear ink jet media cost considerably more than a roll of Network #1 film.

[Jerald]

As long as they continue to make film I am going to use my imagesetter as well. I have heard rumors from my Fuji rep that once it is no longer economically sound to manufacture film they will no longer make it. Hopefully that is a few years off yet.

[schenkadere]

As long as they continue to make film I am going to use my imagesetter as well. I have heard rumors from my Fuji rep that once it is no longer economically sound to manufacture film they will no longer make it. Hopefully that is a few years off yet.

I'm with you.

[prepressing]

You may want to look at an OYO thermal imagesetter. They produce an imagesetter that offers excellent registration (plus or minus 0.01% measured at a length of 60 inches). Plus the film will be produced for many years to come and the machines do not require a processor.

TechStyler Link: Film Screen Printing Equipment Machine Printer Creating Film Positives and Film Negatives OYO TechStyler

Liberator Link: Flexo Printing Equipment, Flexo Film Printer, Gravure Litho Screen Film Positive Negative Machine Flexography Film Separations Printing

[schenkadere]

You may want to look at an OYO thermal imagesetter. They produce an imagesetter that offers excellent registration (plus or minus 0.01% measured at a length of 60 inches). Plus the film will be produced for many years to come and the machines do not require a processor.

TechStyler Link: Film Screen Printing Equipment Machine Printer Creating Film Positives and Film Negatives OYO TechStyler

Liberator Link: Flexo Printing Equipment, Flexo Film Printer, Gravure Litho Screen Film Positive Negative Machine Flexography Film Separations Printing

That's interesting depending upon the cost of the device and the film.

[prepressing]

The pricing for the film is also available online:
OYO Film for Screen, Flexo, Offset, Gravure Autotype Aspect Film

When you calculate in that you no longer need to maintain a processor or purchase chemistry, the price of the thermal film is close to traditional film costs. The thermal film is also ready to use as soon as it comes out of the imagesetter plus it is not light sensitive and can be archived for later use.

[schenkadere]

The pricing for the film is also available online:
OYO Film for Screen, Flexo, Offset, Gravure Autotype Aspect Film

When you calculate in that you no longer need to maintain a processor or purchase chemistry, the price of the thermal film is close to traditional film costs. The thermal film is also ready to use as soon as it comes out of the imagesetter plus it is not light sensitive and can be archived for later use.

My other concern would be that this is a proprietary system with proprietary substrate. This day and age anything can happen...what about support and availability of the film. That would be a concern...how many installations are there out there?

[prepressing]

That is a good point especially since you need to make sure the equipment you buy today will have a future tomorrow. The machines are running at thousands of sites around the world and the film will be produced for years to come. There are absolutely no plans to phase out the film.

[M&M Displays]

What size are you printing? We tried it on two printers and two different types of clear material. In both cases it was pretty shitty compared to imagesetter film. Our setters are gone now and we have been using a Lucsher Jet Screen Laser system which is fantastic. 63, 85 and 133 LPI are no problem. The issues we had in digital film, very slow speed, bad looking dots are gone. Our average size of print is 36 x 48. Our largest is 52 x 96