Remember film—and film strippers? The switch from letterpress to offset litho brought us into the world of graphic arts cameras, darkrooms, and chemical processing. Workers were hunched over light tables cutting goldenrod and rubylith sheets. Ah, memories.
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By Diane Dragoff on Sep 27, 2024
Thanks for the memories. I really wanted to become a stripper, but it really wasn't a "girl joDesign. That kind of stripper, anyways. It was really good to know the process because the computers mimicked , at least at the beginning I could think in analog and translate for the young'uns who didn't have that background in nondigital design.
By Alvaro Mantilla on Sep 27, 2024
During my first summer break after my freshman year at RIT, I worked as a "film stripper" at a newspaper in Ecuador, which also had a commercial printing operation. Stripping the films for the newspaper pages was not too difficult, however one time I was asked to assemble the films for a geography textbook. I went on with my task, and thought I had done a great job, I concentrated on being sure that the registration was perfect! Once the book went to press and I saw the first signatures coming out of the press, I noticed I made a terrible mistake. On a map of South America, the Ecuadorian line was not passing through Ecuador, but it was passing through Panama!! It was my mistake when doing the stripping... since then I stayed away from the films....
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