Hell Drum Scanner CP341

The cameraman is Bill and the scanner operator is Roger Gusterud. We worked for a Repro Trade House called Reproforum Montasje AS in Oslo Norway. This was how a scan was made to film. There were 4 colour seperations scanned to film which were then used by a Lithographic Planner or Reprotekniker to contact to final film pages.
The Reproforum group also had a company called Scanner Studio which purhased the first Hell Chromacom System in Scandinavia. Roger also worked on the Crosfield Magnascan 646 which was in another building.

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Education

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• Hell
• Drum
• Scanner
• Crosfield
• FFEI
• Roger
• Gusterud
• Operator
• Reproforum
• Oslo
• Norway

[kb0407]

I was the first scanner operator in Ireland back in 1978 using a Dainippon scanner which produced film contones which then had to be processed to film via a colour enlarger. I then moved onto the Hell series 339L & 399ER. Fantastic scanners. I have since used Crosfield 646 and Linotype Tango and am still using a 646 Celcius today. What a shame there is very littleno skill in todays

repro,what with pdf workflows and profiles. Missing those good old days of skill and workmanship.

[pkqkennywood]

i just bought 1 of these at auction. doesnt have the tube in the middle though.. so i'm guesing its worthless except for scrap

[magicmossy]

@kb0407 I was an operator of a Screen 737 in Leeds - the best drum scanner ever built IMO

[kraaksem]

Those were the days! In 1985 I started on a Hell DC300 filmscanner. I made scans for high quality advertising work. Sometimes a scan was so big I had to make 4 scans to make all 4 separation colours. If the scan wasn't good enough because of quality, dust or airbubbles underneath the slide I had to make it again. Some days I produced only 5 scans a day. Nevertheless it was a nice time, it was pure craftsmenship and well paid.

[r0bester]

wow I learned on a CP341, then progressed to a 399 & also worked on a Crosfield 646 IM. Memories.........

[toothdok50]

I operated a CP341 for a printing company in Old Forge, PA. What a headache. We used this baby for sublimation printing (heat transfer) and we were trying to get 1/4% dots at 150 lpi resolution--talk about driving you nuts. It was not unusual for us to have to do 10 or 15 scans with constant laser adjustment to make it work. Glad I'm in dentistry now! I love to have this baby for making digital scans now though--the heck with the film output.

[MyCobaltSS]

I too miss the heady days of drum scanning, my first was a Crosfield 550, but we got a Crosfield 636, shortly after that.