VOL. V, NO. 2
OCTOBER 4, 1963
Industrial Photo Introduced
Into Shop Printing Course
By Larry Wright

Industrial photography is now offered to students taking print shop at Maine West. The new darkroom is located across the hall from D-107. Use of photography is growing very rapidly in all types of industry.

The training offered at West will be beneficial to anyone going into any form of industrial photography. Students, trained in darkroom procedure, will take pictures of copy material with a copy camera donated by Pure Oil Company of Des Plaines. Training in processing negatives using the new temperature controlled sink in which a continuous flow of water will keep the chemicals at 68 degrees will be another phase of the course.
After the negatives are processed and dried, they are taken to the lighted table and unwanted blemishes are removed. Then the negatives are taken and centered on a special paper with a hole cut in the place where the image is to be.

The next step is to take the negatives to the are printer.

An arc lamp is used to expose the sensitive plates, after which they are developed and made ready for the presses.