[rollei_list] Re: Off topic, classic photo paper

  • From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:59:31 -0400

This is correct. If an ad agency wanted a copy of print ad to run in a
publication, they would order a "velox" from the lab. We are talking 60s
here...


Eric Goldstein

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On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Allen Zak <azak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Come to think of it, I remember that the printing operation of newspapers
> for which I freelanced used Velox to make pages for the photo offset
> process.  That extends the paper's timeline through the early 70s.  I don't
> remember coming in contact with it ;D after that.
>
> Allen Zak
>
> On Jul 17, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Lnchmt wrote:
>
> I used it for contact prints in HS photo class in the early 70's.  Seems
> like it came in two contrast grades.
> My journalism advisor referred to paste-up ready prints as "veloxes" so it
> had became a generic term long before then, like xerox, perhaps.
> Lance
>
>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From: John Jensen <jwjensen356@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: rollei_list <rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tue, Jul 17, 2012 3:17 pm
> Subject: [rollei_list] Re: Off topic, classic photo paper
>
>  I remember it from the early 50s when I used it for contact printing.
> And with the use of Kodak Tri-Chem packs.
>
> John
>
> --- On *Tue, 7/17/12, Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Don Williams <dwilli10@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: [rollei_list] Off topic, classic photo paper
> To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2012, 10:12 AM
>
>  Velox-
>
> Does anyone out there remember using this paper?
>
> How long was it a standard at Kodak?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DAW
>
>
>

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