Having created all the files for the Ewe Boat model the next stage is the printing. So, all the files are saved in Adobe Illustator format and copied onto a CD-ROM. The disk is then delivered to our printers, Colophon Press, in Carlisle, Cumbria.

If you look closely at the computer screen you can make out the cover of the Ewe Boat on Colphon's screen.

Once they are happy with the file on their computer system it needs to be separated and output to film. The files are divided into four colours, cyan, yellow, magenta and key (black) with one film for each colour. The big black box puts the image onto the film. It is then developed ready to be used to create plates.

The box shown here is used to develop the films, The film is simply a wide roll of ordinary black and white photographic, it is developed with standard photographic chemicals.

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