Kodak GAI User Manual

 ESY Scanner Film

 GAI Film  

 IRF Scanner Film

 GIR Film 

Technical Information Instruction Sheet – TI2407 
August 2006 

Features / Customer Product Specifications  

Kodak ImageLite scanner films and Gen 5 films are designed for use with a wide range of today's 

electronic dot-generating color scanners, image recorders, imagesetters and contact-screen scanners. All 

are cut to "true-fit" scanner sizes to match dimensions specified by scanner manufacturers. These 

products can be used in most conventional rapid-access developers, such as 

Kodak RA 2000 developer 

and replenisher. It should be possible to achieve satisfactory results in most other rapid-access type 

developers. These films are coated on a dimensionally stable 

Estar base with antistatic and surface 

properties to ensure dependable transport and handling behavior. 

  

ESY/GAI 

•  A high contrast, blue sensitive film for use on electronic-dot generation 

(EDG) color or monochrome scanners.  

•  Optimized for use with raster scanning output devices using an argon-

ion laser (488 nm) as the exposing source. 

IRF/GIR 

•  High contrast, infrared sensitive film.  
•  Recommended for use with scanners and recorders that use a laser 

diode, emitting light in the infrared area (780 nm).  

•  Wide exposure and development latitude.  

Safelight Recommendations 

Safe handling times at various safelight-to-film plane distances can be easily determined by exposing the 

films to a screen tint and using a card to step off various amounts of safelight exposure following image 

exposure. An increase in dot size or a change in density indicates excessive safelight exposure. For 

information on performing safelight tests, see Kodak’s Publication No. K-4, "How Safe is Your Safelight?"  

Kodak ImageLite ESY Scanner Film / Kodak Gen 5 GAI Film  

This film can be handled under amber or orange-yellow safelight illumination  

produced by the following sources: