mellotron
02-19-07, 11:26 PM
I was bored to tears tonight so I decided to take some pictures of the old workplace (1hr Photo Lab).
So all the film we get first gets prepared here where we splice the film onto a leader card and attach a sticker that tracks the order and the film.
http://i9.tinypic.com/4c0dkky.jpg
Then the film gets dropped into the film processor where it goes through a maze of conveyors and rollers submerged in photo chemistry. This takes 10 minutes.
http://i13.tinypic.com/4hx8lzp.jpg
Once the film or digital order is ready, it goes to our film scanner/printer operator where we can adjust images for quality, look at customer nudies.
http://i13.tinypic.com/4giip13.jpg
Then the pictures are processed by the printer, where photo-sensitive paper is scanned by a laser then submerged into more photo chemistry. This takes exactly 3 minutes from start to finish.
http://i5.tinypic.com/4g5madl.jpg
So in total, our one hour lab could process your roll of film in as little as 15 minutes.
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Now here are some other parts of the photolab.
This is our 'Photo Ramp', its sole purpose is to do batch scans of pictures and burn them to a CD. It's not bad, but its still a piece of shit.
http://i16.tinypic.com/2ura0i8.jpg
This is the heart of our "HP Photosmart Studio", basically its a dual-core xeon machine on its own gigabit LAN that processes orders for calendars, photo albums and posters.
http://i16.tinypic.com/3ymj91x.jpg
Here's the poster printer, it does prints as large at 24"x36", but its dreadfully slow, taking 15-25 minutes to print a single poster.
http://i12.tinypic.com/2iget85.jpg
And this is the last piece of the HP machines, a high-volume 4-colour laser printer with 3-trays. This makes the nicest laser prints I've ever seen.
http://i18.tinypic.com/42xnxb9.jpg
Thats our manual sleever (cuts film negatives and puts them into little baggies) and our dark tent, where we go to change paper magazines, extract film from damaged canisters, load control strips and occasionally take naps.
http://i9.tinypic.com/47v1pit.jpg
So far if you've been keeping count, we have 11 computers in the lab (4 shown), 7 printers (4 shown). And to top it off we've been given a Rimage automated CD burner. Basically its a robotic arm that takes a CD from one pile, burns it, prints a label and then drops it onto a finished pile, all without any human intervention. Sounds like fun, but I'm still trying to figure out why we need it.
http://i15.tinypic.com/48f3x1w.jpg
So now that I've posted pictures from my workplace, lets see pictures of yours!
So all the film we get first gets prepared here where we splice the film onto a leader card and attach a sticker that tracks the order and the film.
http://i9.tinypic.com/4c0dkky.jpg
Then the film gets dropped into the film processor where it goes through a maze of conveyors and rollers submerged in photo chemistry. This takes 10 minutes.
http://i13.tinypic.com/4hx8lzp.jpg
Once the film or digital order is ready, it goes to our film scanner/printer operator where we can adjust images for quality, look at customer nudies.
http://i13.tinypic.com/4giip13.jpg
Then the pictures are processed by the printer, where photo-sensitive paper is scanned by a laser then submerged into more photo chemistry. This takes exactly 3 minutes from start to finish.
http://i5.tinypic.com/4g5madl.jpg
So in total, our one hour lab could process your roll of film in as little as 15 minutes.
--------------------------------------------
Now here are some other parts of the photolab.
This is our 'Photo Ramp', its sole purpose is to do batch scans of pictures and burn them to a CD. It's not bad, but its still a piece of shit.
http://i16.tinypic.com/2ura0i8.jpg
This is the heart of our "HP Photosmart Studio", basically its a dual-core xeon machine on its own gigabit LAN that processes orders for calendars, photo albums and posters.
http://i16.tinypic.com/3ymj91x.jpg
Here's the poster printer, it does prints as large at 24"x36", but its dreadfully slow, taking 15-25 minutes to print a single poster.
http://i12.tinypic.com/2iget85.jpg
And this is the last piece of the HP machines, a high-volume 4-colour laser printer with 3-trays. This makes the nicest laser prints I've ever seen.
http://i18.tinypic.com/42xnxb9.jpg
Thats our manual sleever (cuts film negatives and puts them into little baggies) and our dark tent, where we go to change paper magazines, extract film from damaged canisters, load control strips and occasionally take naps.
http://i9.tinypic.com/47v1pit.jpg
So far if you've been keeping count, we have 11 computers in the lab (4 shown), 7 printers (4 shown). And to top it off we've been given a Rimage automated CD burner. Basically its a robotic arm that takes a CD from one pile, burns it, prints a label and then drops it onto a finished pile, all without any human intervention. Sounds like fun, but I'm still trying to figure out why we need it.
http://i15.tinypic.com/48f3x1w.jpg
So now that I've posted pictures from my workplace, lets see pictures of yours!