Conversion of 16mm Single-Head Continuous Printers for Simultaneous Printing of Picture and Sound on Single-System Negative

The big rush for television news release prints from single-system negative prompted the design of this conversion unit. In news work every possible shortcut must be taken, without lowering the quality of the release prints. These converted printers cut the printing time in half; also, they save considerable raw stock, because in loop printing a splice may give way and create a synchronization problem in resplicing the negative, with the result that stock with sound printed but no picture usually has to be discarded. No loss occurs when picture and sound are printed simultaneously on these printers.

Print ISSN

0898-042X

Published

1953-10

Content type

Original Research

DOI

10.5594/J00983