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Author Topic: Over/Lay print? Harry Robinson Expert Film Handler Posts: 155 From: Franklin Tennessee Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-24-2003 04:29 PM                     I was checking over a print the other day, and it had the words, "Over/Lay Print" on the leader. What does this mean?  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-24-2003 09:59 PM                        Overlay usually refers to printing from two negatives sandwiched together, or optically combined, often used for subtitles. Also known as "bi-pack" printing: http://www.cinetyp.com/subtitles.html  |  IP: Logged John Hawkinson Film God Posts: 2273 From: Cambridge, MA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 04-24-2003 10:16 PM                     What's the solution for the lack of BH1868 film? --jhawk  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 04-24-2003 10:30 PM                        quote: What's the solution for the lack of BH1868 film? Bi-Pack is best done on a pin-registered step printer, either contact or optical. When done on a continuous contact printer, bi-pack often has more unsteadiness than if the proper short-pitch to long-pitch relationship is maintained. Theoretically on a continous contact printer, the negatives would need to be BH-1866 and BH-1870. The raw stock print film would need to be even longer pitch, probably KS-1874. [ 04-25-2003, 09:20 AM: Message edited by: John Pytlak ]  |  IP: Logged Harry Robinson Expert Film Handler Posts: 155 From: Franklin Tennessee Registered: Dec 1999 posted 04-28-2003 01:19 PM                     John, that's interesting because this is not a subtitled print.  |  IP: Logged

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