Peter,
I would recommend that you spend some time with a phone book and look
for service bureaus in you area. If I were doing this I would want
to be involved with the bureau and if I had to, teach them what I
want the negatives to look like. Isn't there a book out there about
making digital negatives for alt printing? (Dan
Burkholder
http://www.danburkholder.com/Pages/main_pages/page1_main.htm book
info on that page) I would get that book and study up and show it to
the service bureau. They might only know how right now to make
halftone negatives. That may be what you want if you can get them in
the 2540 lpi and 200 dpi range. That is a pretty fine dot. Be aware
that not all imagesetters can do 2540 but max out at 2400 lpi. There
is some math that tells you at a certain lpi you can achieve a
certain dpi. I am blanking out right now but if I think of the
formula I will post that too. Good luck!
lee\c
Lee Carmichael wrote:
I have installed over 100 imagesetters and platesetters in my working life. The issue with imagesetters is when they go bad it costs a lot of money. They cost in the neighborhood of 35K to buy one of the lower end units. Imagesetters can be repaired. I don't totally believe Lensworks explanation. There are other companies that have imagesetters. This is the way negs and plates are made these days.
Direct to press is starting to make some headway into the shops but these presses are very expensive and only handle a small portion of the printing that comes into the shops. There are some direct to plate machines but we are talking 75K for the low end of these.
lee\c
Lee,
That's good to hear. Can you recommend anyone for making digital negatives?
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