An optical printer is a device consisting of one or more film projectors mechanically linked to a movie camera. It allows filmmakers to re-photograph...

up printer in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Printer may refer to: Printer (publishing), a person Printer (computing), a hardware device Optical printer...

mattes or the Schüfftan process or in post-production using an optical printer. An optical effect might be used to place actors or sets against a different...

foreground opaque. Next, a three-layer sandwich of film is run through an optical printer. On the bottom is the unexposed copy film. Above it is the first matte...

Toland for years.: 110  The optical printer improved some of the deep focus shots.: 92  One problem with the optical printer was that it sometimes created...

were used to control the optical printer. For the film The Empire Strikes Back, Richard Edlund created a "quad optical printer" that accelerated the process...

an optical printer for further processing. He was unable to find an optical printer priced within his budget, so he built one himself. The printer was...

scenes. At Tsuburaya's insistence, Toho purchased an Oxberry 1900 optical printer to remove damages in composite photography shots. It is the final film...

required an optical printer to extract the "separations". This was necessary for its three-color process: red/"cyan printer" and green/"magenta printer" printed...

cartridge. These chips offer no benefit to the end-user—some laser printers used an optical mechanism to assess the amount of remaining toner in the cartridge...

editor, print them locally on a printer, and can save thousands of dollars on large numbers of forms. Identifying optical marks within a form, such as for...

digital technology, a split screen in films was accomplished by using an optical printer to combine two or more actions filmed separately by copying them onto...

assassination buff Robert Groden used one of Weitzman's copies and an optical printer to make versions of the Zapruder film with close-ups and minimize the...

Academy Awards. It required several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer and sixteen hours a day over seven months to make the short. The film...

of ink onto paper and plastic substrates. Inkjet printers were the most commonly used type of printer in 2008, and range from small inexpensive consumer...

of a flashback. In the film, this effect is usually created with an optical printer by controlling double exposure from frame to frame. In linear video...

Toho to purchase the "Optical Printer 1900 Series" in order to facilitate the production of special effects, while noting that optical synthesis technology...

received the Academy Award for his work to create an aerial-image optical printer for combining mattes, though this process was still analog. The first...

stock shots and walks down with them to the man who's operating the optical printer and tells him to make some sort of mishmash out of it. He does, and...

either be an in-camera effect or an effect produced with the use of an optical printer. There are various reasons why this technique may be adopted, such...

gates open. The Williams process did not use bipacking, but rather an optical printer, the first such device that synchronized a projector with a camera...

create 75 seconds of computer graphics needed for the creature. An optical printer was used for the compositing of the sequence, except from the shot...

mattes, or the Schüfftan process or in post-production using an optical printer. An optical effect might place actors or sets against a different background...

involved with shooting animation in that era. Modifying a process optical printer, he was able to exchange sprocket heads and pull down pins that were...

for the effects and the live-action sequences through a two-headed optical printer and capturing the results with a camera. Anvil of Crom Blaring French...

read by an optical sensor on the printer head (common on inkjets). Because the printing involves mechanical pressure, dot matrix printers can create carbon...

miniature effects were combined with full-sized elements through an optical printer, the effects footage would still appear clear and sharp though having...

technique known as Pepper's ghost.[citation needed] Film portal Bipack Optical printer Pinteau, Pascal (2005). Special Effects: An Oral History – Interviews...

film was photographed in Super 35, an optical printer was used to anamorphose (squeeze) the image. This optical step reduced the overall quality of the...

Dunn developed the Acme-Dunn optical printer to be mass-produced out of a request from the United States' military. The printer was revolutionary in both...