P3D StereJet (was: Stereo Printing)

[boris@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Boris Starosta)]

>From: Larry Berlin <lberlin@xxxxxxxxx>
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>It seems the polarized printing inks are here, but OUCH are they expensive.
...
>I expected *expensive* but these prices seem to go way beyond expensive and
>into the realm of the absurd and ridiculous.

For corporate/industrial applications, such prices may well be "worth it."

>From what I know about stereojets, the high cost comes from labor.  Because
it is such a new process, much hand adjusting goes into the printing,
particularly the alignment of the two images.  My guess is that there are
some throw-aways for each successful print made.

StereoJets are made using inkjet printers.  These are slow when printing at
high resolution.  Figure a half-hour for an 8x10 StereoJet (printed two
sides separately) at least, just for the first print, which may or may not
succeed!

Plus you have the strange and rare inks, and the even stranger and rarer
polarized, three layer transparency material.  The 200.- for an 8x10 seems
like a good deal once you consider all these factors.

>From my viewpoint as a technical illustrator, the StereoJet solves several
problems.  I can get a full color, very high resolution, and high depth
resolution image from a relatively simple computer file (only two
viewpoints). PLUS stereojets can be projected (though I've only heard about
this).

My other options: anaglyphs do not give the color resolution, and
lenticulars require many more viewpoints and are still limitied in depth
resolution.

Boris

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