Try doing hundreds of them precisely without a punch and pin registration system. The movie, One Flew Overs the Cuckoos Nest, depicts what happens to those folks.
And many alt methods, especially color ones, highly depend on punch and registration gear, albeit it is sometime bigger and derived from the printing industry.
I don't know what you mean by "average". Those of us who learned color printing during the Cibachrome generation needed to make masks for nearly every single image, even if it was personal rather then commercial work. Dye transfer printers of the previous and somewhat overlapping generations had to make far more, along with registered color separations, often as many as 15 sheets of registered film per image. And even today, there are some individuals who do a fair amount of masking even for sake of their black and white prints.
Gum is rather forgiving because it forms a relatively soft image. Cibachrome was an extraordinarily crisp medium and
very unforgiving, and anything like a dimensionally unstable acrylic substrate would be evident in the print. I'm just little ole me too, but lil' ole me passing on certain suggestions about how to do things more precisely.
Well, on this particular thread, we're talking about someone wanting to register relatively tiny 120 film images for sake of masking purposes, which is quite different than how graphics folks would register big sheets and use big punches in relation to taping them together over a light box. I have that kind of big stuff myself, but it rarely comes into play, since I enlarge most of my images. I did do some tricolor "assembly" printing experiments via dye transfer, but would need another lifetime or two to perfect that, let alone fiddle with something like tricolor carbon. I already have more than enough to do with my remaining time.
All my current masking work is done with either Condit micro-pin gear or matching accessories I made myself, and pertains to film originals all the way from 35mm film up to 8x10 film. I also have made quite a number of precision duplicates and internegs which required extremely accurate registration of multiple sheet of film, so I'm very glad I invested up front, quite early, in some top end Condit micro-pin equipment.
Well, you obviously do have fun with numerous aspects of it, including sharing your results with others via how-about-this flicks. Just don't fall through the ice next winter!
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