Ink on Paper
Ink coverage, absorption and the tooth of the paper under it.
What’s inside
One OFX effect for DaVinci Resolve with a Type menu of thirteen surfaces, from ink on paper and photocopy toner to Game Boy Camera and passive LCD. Each type rebuilds the picture the way that process forms an image: ink coverage, toner, heat-printed dots, phosphors and pixels respond to the tone and color of your shot.
Presets
All 31 presets of Bradford Textures, rendered by the plugin itself on a shot from Open Road A (1951, Bethlehem Steel Company), public domain via the Prelinger Archives, at 720×540, shown cropped to fit. A wipe shows the preset left of the line and the untouched frame right of it.

Defaults
Still
Defaults
Loop · 2 s
CRT, tube · aperture grille · consumer
Loop · 2 s
CRT, tube · slot mask · flat
Loop · 2 s
CRT, tube · worn · breathing 0.06
Loop · 2 s
CRT, tube · radar tube · long persistence
Loop · 2 s
Defaults
Loop · 2 s
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Still
Defaults
Wipe · 2 s
Defaults
Loop · 2 s
Defaults
Loop · 2 s
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Loop · 2 s

Defaults
Still
Defaults
Loop · 2 s

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Still
Defaults
Loop · 2 s
Monochrome
Loop · 2 s
Blue / Orange
Loop · 2 s
Blue / Pink / Yellow
Loop · 2 s
CMYK
Loop · 2 s
Five-color Poster
Loop · 2 s
Six-color Studio
Loop · 2 s
Cyan / Vermilion / Canary
Loop · 2 s
Defaults
Loop · 2 s
Monochrome
Loop · 2 s
Blue / Orange
Loop · 2 s
Blue / Pink / Yellow
Loop · 2 s
CMYK
Loop · 2 s
Five-color Poster
Loop · 2 s
Six-color Studio
Loop · 2 s
Cyan / Vermilion / Canary
Loop · 2 s
Professional workflows
Set a node’s Input to your timeline’s encoding. It converts the picture to where the effect was tuned, does its work and converts back exactly, so the look on an ACES project matches the same shot on a Rec.709 timeline.
The plugin’s own frames, re-encoded in your browser as each timeline stores them, shown without a display transform.
On an ACES timeline, Clip gives the effect what a Rec.709 clip of the same shot would be, so the look matches exactly. Keep lets highlights through and back out.
In use on one computer at a time, and handed back when Resolve quits. No deactivating before you move suites. The Mac release and the Windows beta now; the full Windows release when it ships, at no extra cost.
Noise and drift come from a seed and the frame number, and GPU and CPU agree, so a re-render or a render node matches the frame you approved.
On a DaVinci Wide Gamut or camera log timeline, put a Color Space Transform to Rec.709 before the effect.
License
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