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A clarification on Kodak coating practice
IDK if this is the best place to put this post. It is intended to clarify some of Kodak's coating practices and place some products in better perspective.
I have said in the past in many posts that Kodak coats 42" wide with a 2" discardable edge (1" on each side of the web) in 5000 ft lengths. Well, I spent most of my time with paper coating for which this is true, but in film, I dealt with the Pilot lab which coated 21" wide film coatings.
However, the newest Kodak coating machine coats 54" wide and 6000 ft lengths. So, I have to stand kind of corrected. This increases the amount of film from a single master roll by quite a bit and also increases the cost of a master roll. Of course, paper coated in Colorado is coated over 70" wide.
So, with these corrections, you now have a more complete picture of the yields and costs.
Sorry about the ambiguity, but this was brought to my attention by an EK friend recently.
PE
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What's the coating time for a full master roll on the new machine?..Evan Clarke
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Lets just say that it would be less than an hour.
PE
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PE, I just finished reading Team Zebra. Were you part of TZ?
Dennis
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Dennis;
I'm not sure what you mean. "Amazing Race"? If I don't get it right, then I must not have been a part of any Kodak team with that name. Our projects were letters and numbers such as P-130 and PL-979 and etc.... Or they had formal names such as Merlin or OASIS or something like that.
The Letter + Number combination were usually product development projects with the year often incorporated into the number. The word names were usually internal projects.
PE
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Ok, my brain malfunctioned.
No, I was not part of this team. It was at an executive and plant (MFG) level and we never interacted with them in research. Sorry.
PE
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 Originally Posted by Photo Engineer  Lets just say that it would be less than an hour.
PE So roughly 195,000 4x5 sheets coated in an hour. When people start talking about the demise of film they must consider the staggering capacity Kodak alone has and how must purchasing must be done to make film production viable...EC
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Originally Posted by eclarke So roughly 195,000 4x5 sheets coated in an hour. When people start talking about the demise of film they must consider the staggering capacity Kodak alone has and how must purchasing must be done to make film production viable...EC Indeed, it's a lot. But I guess that the greatest part of all the film coated goes to motion picture.
I seen some "kodak interesting facts" on a blog of the company, one of the facts was this one:
Each year, Kodak sells enough color print film to circle the globe more than 90 times.
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Originally Posted by Prest_400 Indeed, it's a lot. But I guess that the greatest part of all the film coated goes to motion picture.
I seen some "kodak interesting facts" on a blog of the company, one of the facts was this one: Yes, digital film making is the real threat to us analog still photographers...EC
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What is this paper coating you mentioned in Colorado? I live there and would be interested learning more about something that goes on near home.
Thanks
Thomas
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