Color carbon Options

[richsul]

I've got a team together who will be exploring the possibilities of 4-color carbon:

Peter Ellzey: formerly of CompuGraphics, He was early on noted for his digital negatives and was recommended by Dan Burkholder in his book. He should be a valuable asset to making separations!

Gordon Mark: noted pt and carbon printer, works primarily in 12 x20.

Madelyn Willis: Accomplished carbon printer and raconteur. Dedicated teacher of little tykes at a local Pueblo.

Andre Ruesch: Head of the photography department at Santa Fe Community College and also a carbon printer. Also a fondue expert, by way of his Swiss homeland.

And last:

Herr Professor Howard Efner: Who has already explored color carbon and is quite an expert in matters concerning molykules.

I will set up a separate section to sort of blog about our activities.

Three of our new machines are operational and lend themselves for technical reasons to making of 4-color tissue. I expect to have a few more running in the near future.

Comment s welcome

--Dick

[John Jarosz]

Congrats on the new machines that can support a color process.

I prolly won't indulge because being red/green colorblind I'd end up with some odd looking prints.

John

[richsul]

Me too. Washed out of everything in the USMC due to it. They wanted to make me a pilot, send me to college, all kind of things. It's an unwaverable defect. Kept getting sent to review boards for various programs. I did very well since after the first one I knew I was already washed out so I wasn't at all nervous. I was Perhaps even a little cocky.

I was even prepared for the classic question: "Private Sullivan, suppose you are a lieutenant and you are assigned to install a flag pole in front of the headwarters building, how would you go about it?

The answer is: Come here Sargent.

Ok, it OT but one more:

I was sitting in the ante room of the headquarters waiting for an interview board -- lots of officers and at least one noncom. It was running very late and as I was sitting there the mail came in with the latest copy of the Marine Gazette Magazine, this is the one for officers. In it was a article on vertical envelopment, a new tactic by the USMC, written by some high ranker at the Naval War College that invented the idea. Ok, you can see where this is going. After a few standard questions about why did I want to be an officer, etc, etc, a Captain asked me if I had ever heard of vertical envelopment? A new helicopter tactic. I had fun! Didn't mention reading the article 10 minutes before though. I probably looked too much like some kind of a geek .

--D

Congrats on the new machines that can support a color process.

I prolly won't indulge because being red/green colorblind I'd end up with some odd looking prints.

John

[John Jarosz]

I found out in the 1st grade. I was coloring the tree trunks green.

When my daughter was little I would have her tell me the colors of wires when I was doing any electronics projects so I could match them to the schematic. I heard her tell my wife: "I was helping Daddy because he doesn't know his colors"

[richsul]

It's a more disabling issue than most people suspect. Imagine a doctor not seeing that a patient is glowing bright red? As an enlisted Marine they couldn't fit me into anything like electronics or tower operator. I ended up in aviation hydraulics because the tubing has color blind codes on it. They did offer me medical school with an 8 year sign on! That would have been 4 years of college, 2 med school and 8 in the Corps. I was already 20 and didn't want to be a doctor nohow even if the patients weren't glowing bright red.

When I got out I got a job as a custom printer with Producers Film Lab in Hollywood. Got the great news that they were expanding the color lab and downsizing and eventually closing the B+S and I was going to be a color printer. Resume time! Got hair cuts around the corner on Santa Monica Blvd by a young barber named Ken Marcus, later to do more Playmates that any other photog, and got involved in -- and lost -- a suit with Hefner that established the "work for hire" legal ruling. I later (early 90's) attended an photog friend's bachelor party in Marcus's studio that was legendary -- details not fit for a family forum. Still got Hi-8 videos I need to have transferred to DVD. Ken has gone HC as a Google search will show. (Not safe for work.)

Yeah and my folks had long sessions trying to "teach me my colors." This was after a trip to the the largely African American area of Washington DC -- Dad worked at the Govt Printing Office -- I referred to it as the place where all the red people were. I was maybe 5 or 6. They had not a clue that I was color blind. And yes I bought a pink sports jacket at Sy Devore thinking it was gray. Sort of the reverse of a "white sport coat and a pink carnation." Pink was a minor rage that lasted maybe a year so I could wear it on occasion. As it turned out pink and gray was our HS grad class (1958) colors so it wasn't that awful.

So now you know why the "Team." No way could I do it.


--Dick

I found out in the 1st grade. I was coloring the tree trunks green.

When my daughter was little I would have her tell me the colors of wires when I was doing any electronics projects so I could match them to the schematic. I heard her tell my wife: "I was helping Daddy because he doesn't know his colors"

[Harry B Houchins]

Speaking of the military & colors... When I was color tested going in - due to my future assignment requiring the ability to differentiate the colors of missile & launcher control wiring - it was determined I was in the top 5% ever tested. Big deal, right? Well, it turns out all the wiring in the Nike Herc systems was off-white with little tiny numbers ever six inches to tell them apart!