The platesetter I'm currently using

[Tracy]

I remember the cube towers 

[madbugger]

oh my god yes, I forgot to mention that this place had no air conditioning, I'm in Texas, it was summer.

That soup on the floor would have been something else. 

[born2print]

I'm old enough to have had the pleasure of cleaning LITHO film processors. Racks 4x as big and nastier / harder to clean, in fact - rapid access etc... barely even counts compared to litho IMO 

[David]

did you have the one with the crane to lift the racks out cause they were so big and heavy?
we did for a while, forgot the name.

when I was tray developing, no one had processors around us, one guy down the street built one and patented it, then sold the patent. Not sure who ended up with it.

But yeah, a few years later I was knee deep in film processors, livin' la vida loca

[Joe]

I'm old enough to have had the pleasure of cleaning LITHO film processors. Racks 4x as big and nastier / harder to clean, in fact - rapid access etc... barely even counts compared to litho IMO 

did you have the one with the crane to lift the racks out cause they were so big and heavy?
we did for a while, forgot the name.

when I was tray developing, no one had processors around us, one guy down the street built one and patented it, then sold the patent. Not sure who ended up with it.

But yeah, a few years later I was knee deep in film processors, livin' la vida loca

Yeah we had one with the crane to lift out the racks because two grown men could not lift them out. Always had to replace gears, rollers, springs etc...while cleaning and the job always had to be done on second shift because the deadbeat prima donnas on day shift were too busy to do it. They probably would have f#&%ed it up anyway. I'd rather be shredded with razor blades in dipped in alcohol than to clean one of those again.

[David]

did you guys get to play with any silver recovery stuff?

you don't know what stink is until you do

We had a setup that we would send off a batch, get it processed, and they would send us back a bar of silver.

[Joe]

did you guys get to play with any silver recovery stuff?

you don't know what stink is until you do

We had a setup that we would send off a batch, get it processed, and they would send us back a bar of silver.

Yeah silver recovery was a big thing. I think the company just got cash. This was World Color. Later bought by Quebecor and became Quebecor World. Later bought by Quad. Which also I think ended up buying your old place. It is like 6 degrees of David and Joe. Another interesting fact. My middle name is David.

[Possum]

We just sold our old negs to some place that recovered silver.

Cubitainers? Yeah, and we had a few dirty spouts from them just laying around.

[David]

It is like 6 degrees of David and Joe. Another interesting fact. My middle name is David.

That is so weird, my middle name is Joe.







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[born2print]

did you have the one with the crane to lift the racks out cause they were so big and heavy?
we did for a while, forgot the name.

when I was tray developing, no one had processors around us, one guy down the street built one and patented it, then sold the patent. Not sure who ended up with it.

But yeah, a few years later I was knee deep in film processors, livin' la vida loca

Our Agfa44 OLP had that, but not because of depth, it was a girth issue

[born2print]

did you guys get to play with any silver recovery stuff?

you don't know what stink is until you do

We had a setup that we would send off a batch, get it processed, and they would send us back a bar of silver.

Yup! We did that forever... until the laws made it as if you were a haz mat processing facility instead of a print shop that is helping the environment.

[born2print]

We just sold our old negs to some place that recovered silver.

Right, we did that too, the recovery that we did ourselves was from the processor chem

[madbugger]

first place i worked at sold film and fixer for silver recovery.  
second place was a trade house, so we had very little waste film, not worth the effort.
third place ( current ) sold film early on, but silver was worth very little back then and again, hardly worth the effort. went ctp about 15 yrs ago so no more film.

[Tracy]

When I worked at the Newspaper we cleaned processors everyday!!
back then everything went down the drain 
black lacquer anyone?

[Possum]

How about the yellow sludge at the bottom of the fixer compartment of a phototypesetting processor? A co-worker said it looked like baby poop. Except she didn't use the word poop.