[Leica] We knew it was destined to happen? Positive about the Negative

[reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)]

There are machines that easily and quickly turn digital files into negatives.
They are called "film recorders".

Unfortunately, all of the manufacturers have pretty much stopped making them 
because the world stopped buying them, except for the motion picture 
industry, which still uses them to make film reels for distribution to 
theaters that do not yet have digital projection.

I used a DICOMED for a while; it was a nice toy. I heard that the Kodak LVT 
machines were wonderful, but Kodak stopped making them about 5 years ago. I 
think some company bought Agfa's film recorder business and still makes them.