what kind of print dryer is this?

[Frank Costa]

At my local communitry college darkroom, we had a print dryer
that was only used for B+W RC prints up tp 11X14. It was always on,
you fed a wet print in one end and a dry shiny print came out the
other end in about 15-20 seconds, at about the same speed that a
laminator works. I loved this thing. Does someone know what these kind
of print dryers are called? How much used ones go for?

[Maarten delanghe]

I know DURST makes those (we had one at college to) and they are quite
expensive (around 250-300$).
I don't know if they are very useful to the individual photographer because
aprart from being rather expensive they use lots of electricity.

hopes it helps

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[Maarten delanghe]

here's a snippet from the durst site www.durst.it

RCD 3200

Continous drier for all PE and RC photo papers, also Ilfochrome, max. feed
width 32 cm (121/2 in), power output 980 W, with two heater levels of 65 °C
(149 °F) and 85 °C (185 °F), hot-air radial fan, infinitely variable
throughput speed from 4 cm (11/2 in) per min to 80 cm (311/2 in) per min.

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[Gary Beasley]

Beseler made some of those continuous drum dryers too, I have one. It
cost me about $400. There were several makers of this type in all
sizes. With the advent of RC paper they've kinda dropped out of sight.
Newspaper offices used them so they could have the print really fast
from the darkroom to the copy camera. It was hell on the belts cause
the prints were barely rinsed before being dried. If you get an old
one either wash the belt really well or get a new belt before trusting
it with anything worthwhile.

[Shepherd]

They're great dryers, if you shop around a good bit you might find one used,
especially at some college going all digital. They're only draw back is
that they don't work with fiber prints. They'll jam in a heartbeat, plus the
prints aren't in the heat long enough.

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[Mike King]

There are two groups of continuous feed dryers: the first and older use a
belt (or two) of canvas and press the wet print against a heated drum.
Pako, Premier, Beseler, etc. all made drum driers of this type--some were
monsters--four feet wide, six feet deep and six feet high!! Others were
table top models. Arkay is the only company that I know of that still
offers one--they can be picked up used quite cheap and the larger ones will
dry a couple of hundred!! 4x5's per hour. Make sure you can find a
replacement belt--the one on the machine will be contaminated with fixer.

The other type is for RC only; it may use a belt or rollers to load prints
into a pair of squeegee rollers, then drying is done with some combination
of heat and forced air, the Ilford models use IR heating elements that have
a reputation for putting a super gloss on their brand of RC Glossy paper,
this is newer technology and still available from many sources. Ilford,
Arkay, Premier all come to mind. I'm sure there are other makers, Durst
makes stand alone and a module for it's Printo, most table top processors
also make accessory wash and dry modules based on this design.

darkroommike

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