On 11/20/2015 11:31 AM, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
Hi All, I am hoping to draw from the rich technical knowledge of PDMLers. First, (from early 2000s or even earlier), photo-printing shops/labs that could print from the digital media were using on "regular", i.e. light-sensitive, photo paper. Then, for the large formats and the media such as canvas, watercolor, metallic, they started using something else. What was that? I thought those were wide ink-jet printers, but then I am not sure in case of the metallic prints. I ordered a bunch of them back in 2007-2009 from mpix.com. Those seemed to be different from the metallic paper that is presently available for inkjet printers (dye or pigment). What was that technology? Thanks in advance, Igor
Maybe Océ Lightjet, Durst Lambda, or ZBE Chromira? http://www.largeformatphotography.info/digital-printing.html Looks like ZBE is the only one still manufacturing large format laser chromogenic printers. http://www.zbe.com/products/chromira/chromira_5x.html You can put a traditional chromogenic print emulsion on almost any flat material that can be fed from a roll. I get 12"x36" panoramic photographic prints from Costco, printed on a Fuji Frontier. Anything up to 12 in wide can be printed on the higher end Fuji Frontier or Noritsa QSS " mini-lab" printers. You just have to find a pro-lab that has or is willing to get the right kind of "paper". If you're talking about prints that look like they're printed directly on a sheet of metal, those are probably done with a dye-sublimation process. -- Science - Questions we may never find answers for. Religion - Answers we must never question. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
