• Push up white board door to exposure unit vacuum frame drawer
• Place ImagOn covered plate face up under the glass
• For Aquatint, place aquatint screen on top of plate 
• (emulsion side down) The screen is labeld and you should be able to see the handwritten "AQUATINT SCREEN" on the taped side of the film.
• Activate the vacuum by flipping the vacuum pump laight swicth
• Gently press the outer edge of the vacuum frame to ensure a good seal and thus get an adequate vacuum
• Close outer door (white wipe off baord) door to the exposure unit

..ImagOn Process Index

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..Projects

..Schedule

..Printing

.Ink Cleanup
 
 

• This equipment has a light integrator that judges the amount of light that actually is emitted from the mercury halide light source.

Set the unit of exposure desired on the circular gauge on the right side of the exposure unit

.Use of Photocopies

. Additives & Cleaners

.Basic ImagOn Process

Make exposure
Press  START button

•  lift glass, remove plate, artwork etc. 

 

• Note: you need to wait at least 30 seconds before trying to restrike the bulb. 

 

• Expose ImagOn plate to Aquatint screen ( 35 Unit)
• Expose ImagOn plate to original artwork

Apx. times (under refinement - as of current printing):
Xerox transparency - 10 unit exposure
Frosted Mylar (heavy) - 35 unit exposure

• No initial exposure to an aquatint screen
• Expose ImagOn plate to original artwork. Apx times (as of 10/29/97)

Xerox transparency - 10 unit exposure
Frosted Mylar (heavy) - 35 unit exposure

• Expose ImagOn plate to Aquatint screen ( 35 Unit)
• Expose ImagOn plate to original artwork

Apx times (under refinement - as of current printing):
Xerox transparency - 10 unit exposure
Frosted Mylar (heavy) - 35 unit exposure

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