Image Setting & Films

Film Output

Accurate calibrated output, for the production of CMYK and spot colour separation film sets. Daily density and dot calibration tests ensure dot for dot output. These are our believes to have best end product.

Film output is a service we offer to clients, we ensure that our clients will have their films in hand within 24 hours.

Image Setter

An imagesetter is an ultra-high resolution large-format computer output device. It exposes rolls or sheets of either photographic film or bromide paper to a laser light source. Once the film or paper is developed, a very high quality black and white image is revealed. Development (processing) usually occurs in a unit separate to the imagesetter, as does raster image processing.

Imagesetter setter output ranges in width; usually between 12 and 44 inches. The resolution of an imagesetter is typically between 1200 and 4800 dpi.

Imagesetter film is a silver halide-coated plastic film very similar to normal black & white photographic film, except the spectral sensitivity is reduced to a much narrower band around the output of the laser of the individual imagesetter. This allows the film to be handled under a (usually red) safelight, instead of in total darkness like most photographic film.