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Re: [Digital BW] Harman/Ilford

2014-05-01 by Ernst Dinkla

On 05-03-14 11:01, Ernst Dinkla wrote:

> The brand name Ilford was already split up between the belly up Ilford
> Imaging and Harman Technology. The last uses the brand name Ilford for
> the photographic films, plates etc it still manufactures in the original
> Ilford plant in the UK. My guess is that there is still a contract that
> assures the rights of using the Ilford brand name for inkjet products to
> the Swiss Ilford-Imaging company. The financial curators will try to get
> that brand name sold for good money to whatever company that looks for
> an illustrious brand name to sell its inkjet media. Could be anything
> from a Russian inkjet media manufacturer to a small Brazilian
> distributor of rebranded inkjet media. Kodak wide  inkjet media today is
> distributed by BMG with the label Kodak but RC qualities are Felix
> Schoeller products and the art papers show Innova specs. It shared a
> booth at the last Photokina with InnovaArt.


It did not take long:
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/photo-news/540601/ilford-galerie-photo-paper-set-for-1-3m-comeback


-- 
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
January 2014, 600+ inkjet media white spectral plots.

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