JK 16mm printer

[atomo47]

Hi, i run my own independent film lab for some years now, develop almost any emulsion by hand, but i really nee a optical or contact printer, because i ned to make prints...

Does someone know about a printer for sale, for alow price?

The problem is that i live in Portugal...

Thanks

[unsanity]

I don't know about a printer for sale but have you come across this site
http://www.city-net.com/~fodder/s8mm/optprint.html
about how to make a cheap printer?
I hope this might help.

Julian

[aj]

Hi, i run my own independent film lab for some years now, develop almost any emulsion by hand, but i really nee a optical or contact printer, because i ned to make prints...

Does someone know about a printer for sale, for alow price?

The problem is that i live in Portugal...

Thanks

Can't you just ship the film to Andec or super8.nl? Or who more.

[woods01]

You are not likely to get a JK easily, optical printers have always been rather rare devices. It would be cheaper and easier to obtain an old Steenbeck or other flatbed editor. You can make good one light contact prints with them. There are many artist-filmmakers doing this with impressive results. Search the internet for instructions. Contact printing will give you sharper prints than an optically printed one, plus its a lot faster to do (you run the Steenbeck at high speed, where as a JK runs about 1 fps) saving you a lot of time.

You can also use a sync block and rewinds to create a hand cranked contact printer (or I suppose you could put a motor on the rewind). You could also try modifying an old projector and bi-packing the film in it.