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Author Topic: Help with the Film Cleaner! Heyward Garner Expert Film Handler Posts: 101 From: Winston-Salem, NC, USA Registered: Jan 2001 posted 06-22-2001 02:00 AM                     Ok, just to clarify... I have heard many a different viewpoint of wet and dry media, and when they should be first run on a new print, and how they can badly damage film, etc. The instructions enclosed with all Film Gaurd states that the best time to FIRST clean a print is on thursday nights, when they are being screened for the first time. I haven't stuck to that for several reasons. First off, our city manager chewed me out royally for running a cleaner on a 2 day old print of Mummy. This was almost like a cultre shock to me. So I consulted my best source here, who told me that at the VERY least, I should wait five days to give the print emulsion time to harden up some. It's my understanding that running a cleaner (especially one with fresh pads) will do NOTHING to interfere with this process, if anything I would much rather go ahead and protect the print from the get-go. My booth has such a bad problem with particle buildup that I really dread skipping a projector when rotating my cleaners. I cannot make proper rotations due to my city manager's office being right down the hall. If he were to see me cleaning anything less than two weeks old (his conception of when films should first be cleaned) he would have my head. I am trying to get some solind information here, so I can know exactly what I need to do, or anything I can do to help clear this situation and set things straight. If I really do need to wait five days minimum, then ok. I am just checking.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-22-2001 02:28 AM                     I've been doing it for well over 10 years on the virgin runs and have yet to ever have a scratch. His logic makes perfect sense when running the cleaners dry, but that is pretty much thrown out the window when the pads are wet.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 06-22-2001 06:06 AM                        Actually, proper lubrication helps reduce projector abrasion of a freshly processed "green" print. ------------------ John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging Eastman Kodak Company Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419 Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA Tel: 716-477-5325 Cell: 716-781-4036 Fax: 716-722-7243 E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com Web site: http://www.kodak.com/go/motion  |  IP: Logged

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