Designing a Film for Multiple Recorder Capability

Digital Intermediate use is fairly widespread nowadays. The recorder technology that allows the creation of DI's has been escalating as well. Recorders can be categorized by their illumination source into three main groups: Laser, CRT and LED recorders. They have varying speeds, exposure latitudes and optical power capability. In addition, the different light sources have unique spectral output characteristics, none of which are an ideal match to the sensitivity of current intermediate films that were designed to work in an optical system. This paper will describe the technology incorporated, as well as the criteria and analysis taken into consideration for designing and optimizing KODAK VISION3 Color Digital Intermediate Film 5254/2254, an intermediate film for recorder applications. This new film, launched earlier this summer, provides optimum image quality and system performance independent of the recorder.

Published

2010-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

DI, Digital Intermediate, Recorder film, CRTs, LED, Lasers, Spectral Sensitivity, recorders

DOI

10.5594/M001357

ISBN

978-1-61482-944-7