I've been using a Fuji Pictography 4000 machine locally for my color prints,
which output digital files to light-sensitive, photographic paper. The prints
look superb. I just did an 11x14 for one of the list members and he was really
pleased. It allowed me to manipulate the 4000dpi scan and balance the contrast
and color issues prior to output.
If I could get digital output to Ilfochrome, I agree with George, that's the
way I'd go. I have older, late 1970's Cibachromes that have been on my wall
for 20+ years and don't show any sign of fading or color shifts. The mounting
has come loose in a couple of places, which isn't the material's fault, it was
the mounter.
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>Subject: RE: [OM] nitpicking, perhaps...
> From: "George M. Anderson" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 08:40:25 -0800
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>Bill is absolutely correct. Quote inserted below from another of my posts
>this AM:
>
>PS: They do some digital printing too on an Epson. But they make FAR more
>chemical prints. Using the Lightjet 5000 hooked to a roller transport
>machine. What comes out are called 'Fuji Crystal Archive' prints. These
>are not digital prints, though their source is a digital file.
>
>> This takes the best of both systems, by using a mature, well developed
>> technology, photo paper, as the output medium. I'm told, George, that a
>very few labs > have used these
>> machines to
>> write to Ilfochrome (overcoming the contrast issues), but this may just be
>> an urban legend.
>
>I would certainly like to see that. Not to beat a dead horse, but a
>Supergloss Ciba vs a Fuji xstal Archive ... well you all know which I would
>prefer.
>
>The photoshop pre-processing on the digital file would allow the
>photographer to precisely match the contrast of his image to the contrast of
>the Ilfochrome paper. Voila - contrast issues gone. This would be my ideal
>setup.
>
>George
>
>>
>> Bill Pearce
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