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Author Topic: Cause of bouncy prints? Max Biela Film Handler Posts: 89 From: Dortmund, Germany Registered: Sep 2003 posted 11-27-2008 09:09 AM                     Sally, where's your Bond print coming from? Deluxe Italy? Deluxe (Technicolor too) strikes a few prints from direct made negatives, skipping the internegative/positive step mentioned by Steve and John. You can check wether you've received a standard or better print by looking at the head or tail of a reel. Standard negatives made by Deluxe are marked as "I/N xx" and are bouncing all over the screen. A Print from a digitally recorded negative says "D.M.N. xx" and is rock steady (in most cases) even though they are printed at the same speed on the same printer.  |  IP: Logged Marco Giustini Film God Posts: 2713 From: Reading, UK Registered: Nov 2007 posted 11-27-2008 04:06 PM                     Sprocket cleaning and Flat unstaediness are point to be taken in consideration. But too often I got prints that really jump on the screen... A dirty intermittent will give a fast shaking image, while sometime I got prints that moves slowly (2-3 time at a second). So, you're right to distinguish between projector and labs issues, but an expert eye can usually identify where the problem lies! Marco  |  IP: Logged Sally Ann Burgess Expert Film Handler Posts: 120 From: Queenstown, New Zealand Registered: Apr 2008 posted 11-28-2008 07:12 PM                     Max, Both our 007 and Burn After reading prints came from Atlab in Australia. 007 says L400xx Original (Image), and underneath that L402xx Original #2 (Sound). Burn After reading is the same except of course the numbers are different.  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 11-29-2008 03:32 PM                     Deluxe just bought Atlab, curiously enough (September 26), and also, sadly, our Film-Tech member who worked there (Dominic Case) has moved on. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 12-05-2008 08:21 PM                     I wrote, "I think continuous contact printers top out at around 400 ft/minute. (24fps is 90 feet/minute) I think step printers are about half as slow, maybe 200 feet/minute?" This is wrong. Step printers are much slower, running "a few frames per second." So a single reel could take several hours to be step-printed. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged

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