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Author Topic: What's an "EDB One Sheet"? Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 01-30-2003 07:14 AM                    Close enough for government work! In the past when a VP became prez the VP office remained empty. When Lyndon Johnson became president after Kennedy was killed the Consitution was amended so the office could be filled by appointment and confirmation by both houses of Congress. This led to Ford becoming VP under Nixon after Agnew's resignation (due to a scandal when the latter was governor of Maryland). When Nixon resigned and Ford took office he was the only president who had never been elected at all (not as president, not as veep). Ford in turn hired Nelson Rockefeller as his VP. Tyler took office when the first President Harrison caught pneumonia at his inauguration and died about a month later. He was never elected on his own and therefore never had a VP at all. But I'm sure he loved posters.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-11-2003 09:47 PM                        Then there was Dan Quale, when the country collectively WISHED there was no such thing as a Vice-President. John H. said: "...John (P), pretty much all one-sheets do the back-illumination thing..." Well, kind of. If you illuminate a standard 1-sheet from behind, yes, it will be back-lit, but the problem with that is, the paper base structure is combined with the image created by the ink on the front side. This washes out the contrast of the inked image and adds the paper texture to what is seen from the front. To improve the contrast and elimintate the "image" of the paper base mixing with the image of the ink surface, a mirror image is inked on the back side, matching perfectly the placement of the image on the front. I've heard this called a "transparancy" 1-sheet. When light is passed through the two litograph inked images on both sides of the paper, the color of each is combined and the poster takes on a much richer look with greater color saturation and contrast, and free from the paper image. The down side is that, for reasons that I have never found any explanation, the ink on the transparancy 1-sheets tends to crack at the folds much more readily than do regular 1-sheets. Go figure. And that, boys and girls, is way more than anyone wants to know about 1-sheets. Frank  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 02-11-2003 09:52 PM                        Kodak makes a material called "Duratrans" that offers great image quality, illuminated by either reflected or transmitted light. Available for large format ink-jet printers too, for small/custom production runs. Kodak Duratrans  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 02-11-2003 09:56 PM                     Sorry, I was unclear. When I said "Pretty much all one-sheets do the back illumination thing," I meant "Pretty much all one-sheets are two-sided with the mirror image on the back." Where "all" is defined as "all one-sheets ordered by exhibitors for display purposes, not necessarily ``one-sheets'' available through other channels for other kinds of promotional purposes." You fold your one-sheets? Ugh. --jhawk  |  IP: Logged Richard C. Wolfe Master Film Handler Posts: 250 From: Northampton, PA, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 02-11-2003 11:13 PM                        Many years ago, I'd say about 30, I had a theatre with backlighted poster cases. All the posters at that time as I remember it were only printed on one side. I thought they looked great backlit. I suppose if compared to the double printed ones used today they wouldn't be as good, but there was nothing wrong with the way they appeared.  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 02-11-2003 11:25 PM                    Is that true, that the standard poster is now the double printed type? I thought the typical poster was still one sided with the more expensive two sided ones requested by those with backlit cases.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-11-2003 11:31 PM                        I rarely ever see one-sided posters anymore. In fact I haven't see too many one-sided posters in the last 10 years or so.  |  IP: Logged Mathew Molloy Master Film Handler Posts: 357 From: The Santa Cruz Mountains Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-14-2003 01:04 AM                     Ah Daryl, you're obviously not working in an art-house (if you can call half this crap art!). I'm sitting here looking at my poster storage and I'd say a good 75% are single-sided.  |  IP: Logged Daryl C. W. O'Shea Film God Posts: 3977 From: Midland Ontario Canada (where Panavision & IMAX lenses come from) Registered: Jun 2002 posted 02-14-2003 02:40 AM                        Ah, but I have been. Since we hold must films for about 8 weeks, I only see about 3 single sided posters a year at that venue.  |  IP: Logged Mathew Molloy Master Film Handler Posts: 357 From: The Santa Cruz Mountains Registered: Nov 2000 posted 02-14-2003 12:32 PM                     Hmmmm - you must be getting the GOOD art films!  |  IP: Logged

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