olivia lane Posted September 2, 2021 Report Share Posted September 2, 2021 Do all c-41 control strips need software to read them? I'm starting up a lab and would like everything to be running smoothly and consistently on our v30 before we start taking clients. I've tried reaching out to fuji because I know they have oasis, but it seems like it's going to take them forever to get back to me Does anyone know of any other qualified vendors I can reach out to that also provide the software to read them? thank you thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minilab service Posted September 3, 2021 Report Share Posted September 3, 2021 To read control strips need colorimeter ( densitometer ) . They can be with software, or without it. Control strips are optional. Not necessary to use them. To be sure that chemicals are good you can process your test film, where frames are not important. To test film processor film transporting can use some plastic stripes, or blank film. olivia lane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlam Posted September 3, 2021 Report Share Posted September 3, 2021 kodak in 2 decades ago stil use a Kodak software that runs ONLY on [ Windows 95 ] . They never upgrade the software to run on latter windows. olivia lane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlam Posted September 3, 2021 Report Share Posted September 3, 2021 that Software can print you day-by-day read-in data (from X-Rite densitometer) to R-B-G graphs on graph paper,,, thus you can see RGB trends to tell what's wrong with which chemistry? olivia lane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlam Posted September 3, 2021 Report Share Posted September 3, 2021 software or RGB curves tell the day-by-day trend but won't tell what actions need to take.... the knowledge / chemistry actions knowhow came from Kodak training to operators olivia lane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivia lane Posted September 3, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 3, 2021 Just found a densitometer on eBay! thank y'all !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlam Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 what model ? NOT all X-rite model works on the chemical QC olivia lane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlam Posted September 7, 2021 Report Share Posted September 7, 2021 good luck to you, Olivia lane ! olivia lane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
olivia lane Posted September 8, 2021 Author Report Share Posted September 8, 2021 On 9/6/2021 at 11:37 PM, davidlam said: what model ? NOT all X-rite model works on the chemical QC https://www.ebay.com/itm/392177993945?epid=1238330356&hash=item5b4fa148d9:g:zCEAAOxy-j9SR7eR I was looking at this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlam Posted September 9, 2021 Report Share Posted September 9, 2021 Yes that X-Rite 890, 891 model densitometer were used before /// correct densitometer model the internal "optical reading head" of this kind of grandfather products are all "internal moulding, non-recovery or almost blind". X-rite USA & worldwide distributor had discontinued these parts long long time ago. Wish you good luck . .. . . olivia lane 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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