On 9/23/2015 4:45 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
John wrote:
On 9/22/2015 6:30 PM, Darren Addy wrote:
While looking for cheap 8x10 prints for my employer I tripped across
sharpprints.com. Their prices of $14.95 for 24 x 36 prints sort of
knocked my socks off. Looking into it a bit further they use a
Chromira Pro Lab silver halide printer. Googling that led me to this
discussion of how they are softer than traditional inkjet prints:
http://forum.luminous-landscape.com/index.php?topic=69349.0
(although it is possible that the technology has improved since that
discussion).
Just curious if anyone has any opinions/experience with Silver Halide prints.
Anyone who has ever developed a print in a darkroom has *some*
experience with silver halide prints.
Ditto anyone who ever got 4x6 color prints from a mini-lab.
Minilab prints were chromogenic prints. No silver involved.
I can't think of a traditional color print material that doesn't use
silver, just as with color film, the silver is leached out and replaced
with dyes during the development process. That process was replaced by
inkjet prints in later years, so yes there's no silver involved in mini
labs now.
Pretty much any light sensitive imaging process has silver involved
primarily for three reasons, because the chemistry is well understood as
well as it's being more light sensitive than most, in fact IIRC, all
other similar processes, and easily the least expensive, (priced
Platinum lately), especially if you recover the waste silver.
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