Saturday, March 13, 2010

C, Y, & M

Wow! I got a look inside one of the photo print kiosks recently. What wondrous machines they are. Everything is done dry with light and tinted plastic.
The three colors are:
Cyan
Yellow
Magenta
The three rolls of tinted plastic attach to the photo paper in order as instructed by the machine as it reads the image. Then a final clear plastic protective layer is added. And in just a few minutes your finished print appears.

Years ago I printed 8x10 wedding photos by machine. I sat at the machine, hand fed the negatives into the machine and read the proper exposure with my eyes. Then once the entire roll of paper had been exposed, I unloaded it from the machine in total darkness, slipped it into a light-fast bag and delivered for the developing process (to be run through a batch of chemicals), and then dried and cut. This wet system is quickly disappearing now that digital is here!

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