marker for contact sheets

[dfoo]

What do you guys use to markup your contact sheets?

 

[Gumby]

Sharpie for ID; Grease pencil for printing instructions.

 

[sepiareverb]

In the good old days, when I could use single weight fiber paper and make proper contact sheets a grease pencil was the method. Nowadays, using crappy RC paper I use an orange fine point sharpie. The grease pencil doesn't stay where you put it on the glossy RC, and the contacts on the matte RC (where the grease pencil will stick) are pretty illegible.

I'm reminded of how much I miss SW Kodak Polyfiber every time I edit.

 

[newsgrunt]

blue or yellow grease pencil (china marker as I know them) for me

 

[Chris101]

I scrape through the emulsion layer to the white base with a pen or other sharp object.

 

[sepiareverb]

I scrape through the emulsion layer to the white base with a pen or other sharp object.

When I'm out of shotgun shells this would be my method of choice.

 

[newspaperguy]

A grungy red permanent marker. (but I like the shotgun suggestion)

 

[Trius]

Not a grease pencil, but a "CELLOPHANE MARKER" similar but the cellophane marker works better on photo paper.

Where can you buy these?

 

[rogue_designer]

orange grease pencil

 

[dfoo]

I picked up a couple of sharpies, and they seem to do the trick.

 

[Al Kaplan]

Sharpies. They also make fine point and extra fine point Sharpies. I can't even find China markers anymore.

 

[newsgrunt]

not even in art supply stores ? no problems up here, do you need some ?