Printing
Printing Slides on the Polaroid Digital Palette (Pc Only)
You must be using the PC connected to the Polaroid Digital Palette Slide Printer.   Digital images and text from virtually any software can be printed onto normal 35 mm slide or print film.   The process is fairly simple in that all you are doing is selecting the Digital Palette as your printer and the film as your media (paper).   The film is then developed at any photo shop.
Procedure

  1. Make Slide Images: Just about any software on the PC can generate a slide image.   Microsoft PowerPoint is a good choice to develop the slide layout and will import most generic graphics file formats (Tiff, GIF, JPEG, PICT, etc.).   PowerPoint will also generate the appropriate slide dimensions so that your content will not overlap the edges or give you white borders.

  2. Load Film in the Digital Palette - The device is essentially a 35 mm camera and the film loads the same way.   When you close the camera back you should hear a motor winding the film.   When it is finished the LCD readout on the camera should say "Ready 01 out of 36" (or 12 or 24 depending on the film you loaded).   You are now ready to print.

  3. Selecting the Digital Palette as the Printer - Select Print from the File menu in the upper left corner of the application window.   (see Fig. 1 below)
    1. Select the Digital Palette HR6000 from the list of printers available in the Name: drop down box.
    2. Select Scale to fit paper.


      3. Figure 1:   Print Setup for the Digital Palette as opened from MS PowerPoint.

    3. Adjust Printer Settings - Click the Properties tab.   Set the following options:   (see Figure 2 below)
      1. Orientation - Landscape or Portrait
      2. Slides Sized for:   35mmFilm.


      Figure 2:   Digital Palette HR6000 Properties

    4. Click OK to close the Properties window.

  4. To print: Click OK to close the Print window.   Your slides will now begin to print.

Count on about 1.5 minutes per slide for PowerPoint presentations.   Large images from Photoshop may take a bit longer, but rarely longer than 2 minutes per slide.

If you expose all of the film, the slide maker will rewind the film for you and you can then remove it from the camera back.

If you have extra exposures left on the film you must manually rewind the film in the slide maker to remove the film canister.   This is done by pushing down the blue button on the top of the camera back once and then pushing it again this time holding the button down (click, then click and hold) until the rewind count down elaspes and the remaining film rewinds.   You can now remove the film canister from the camera back.

Additional notes:

  • It is easiest to print slides from PowerPoint or Corel Draw.   Printing from other programs may require much more setup.   If possible import what you are printing into PowerPoint and print from there.

 

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