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Subject: [OM] Re: Confession time...
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:51:45 -0400
Thanks.  I understand much better now.  However, it seems that with 
digital you have now absorbed some work that used to be done by the 
printer who has also lost the scanning fees.  Not quite sure how that 
transition occured.  Hope you're being compensated in some way.

Chuck Norcutt

Stephen Troy wrote:
> At 08:00 PM 07/28/2005 -0400, Chuck Norcutt wrote:

> In the film days, you would send the film to the lab (medium-format slide
> film, not negative film), get the rush processing and have the film back in
> a few hours, have the client approve and then tear down the set and start
> the next page.  You would also need to have the smaller images as close to
> final reproduction size on film as possible, which usually meant putting a
> piece of clear acetate with the layout sketched on it over the ground
> glass.  The printer would then have to drum-scan the film to do the
> separations.  This is where the digital advantage lies - saving on scanning
> time by the printer.  This can actually be quite expensive to the client on
> such a big job.


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