IR imagesetting film?

[MCB18]

Hi all! I have a friend that found a big roll of “IR Typesetting film” that is apparently from the 2000s, and when I looked into it, apparently Ultrafine still sells it! Does anyone have any experience with this stuff? Supposedly it’s made to work with 760 and 840nm lasers, which is very interesting. It’s probably very slow, and will need to be developed in a very low contrast dev, but would it be worth picking up a roll of it to experiment? It’s only like $150 for a 12“ x 100‘ roll I think…

 

[mshchem]

Strange sounding stuff. Might be exceptionally slow to visible light?? I wonder if it can be handled under safelight. Typesetting, I'm familiar with the old phototypesetters that would output from computer directly on lightweight photo paper (black lettering on white paper) .
I suppose this could be for burning litho plates?

 

[mshchem]

I doubt it'll respond anything like "regular"infrared film.

 

[RalphLambrecht]

Hi all! I have a friend that found a big roll of “IR Typesetting film” that is apparently from the 2000s, and when I looked into it, apparently Ultrafine still sells it! Does anyone have any experience with this stuff? Supposedly it’s made to work with 760 and 840nm lasers, which is very interesting. It’s probably very slow, and will need to be developed in a very low contrast dev, but would it be worth picking up a roll of it to experiment? It’s only like $150 for a 12“ x 100‘ roll I think…

this is made for imagesetters and prepress work not regular photography, but it's perfect for making digital halftone negatives.