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Cinescreen® Optical Coatings
With a Draper Cinescreen®, you can select the optimum combination of optical coating and tint based upon your projection equipment, audience seating pattern, desired contrast level, screen aspect ratio, ambient light level and aesthetic considerations. Cinescreen® optical coatings have been formulated to provide inherent abrasion resistance. No other manufacturer offers you this protection.
Factors which influence the selection of the proper optical coating are:
- The light output of the projector
- The audience seating pattern
- The aspect ratio of the screen
- Ambient light levels in the audience area
- Brightness & Uniformity
Cinescreen® optical coatings offer the opportunity to customize your rear projection screen for a precise fit to your room and projection equipment. Select the optical coating for brightness and uniformity, choose the optical tint that meets your contrast needs, and specify the desired substrate. Gain Chart for Cine optical coating
- Cine 10—Ultra-wide angle coating for maximum center-to-corner uniformity of projected image: gain 1.0. Suitable for higher luminance projectors.
- Cine 13—Gain of 1.3, with extremely broad viewing cone and uniform distribution of projected light. Use with all projection formats, including higher-luminance video and data-graphics projection.
- Cine 15—Benchmark wide-angle coating. Gain of 1.5, with uniform distribution of projected light. For all formats and higher luminance video projectors.
- Cine 18*—For medium to wide-angle viewing, with on-axis gain of 1.8. Suitable for all projection formats, including video.
- Cine 20*—Peak gain 2.0, with a somewhat broader viewing cone than Cine 25. Suitable for relatively high ambient light conditions. For all projection formats, including data, graphics and video.
- Cine 25*—Suitable for narrow viewing cones and lower output projection formats. On-axis gain of 2.5. Good image resolution and color reproduction.
*Only suitable for use with projectors having a long throw-distance lens.
Optional Special Coatings
ArmorKote®—While Draper's reformulated optical coatings are now inherently abrasion resistant, you can further insure your Cinescreen® against damage by adding ArmorKote treatment. Highly resistant to solvents, abrasion, and normal impacts of fingernails, pointers, pencils and pens. While ArmorKote will be damaged by repeated or willful abuse through impacts of sharp objects, use as a writing surface, etc., it is an excellent "insurance policy" against accident and error. Virtually impervious to grease, oil, and ammonia; very resistant to most solvents, even permanent markers and chalk. ArmorKote is invisible, does not affect image quality, and is by far the toughest rear screen protective coating available.
NonGlare—Only used if optically coated side must be placed toward projector. Reduces glare on non-coated side. Slightly diminishes resolution. NonGlare coating must be on audience side of screen.
Quality Unsurpassed! No one else manually inspects each screen for quality and accuracy before it leaves the factory.