Digital BW, The Print

Fuji Crystal Archive is absolutely not inkjet paper, but a chemical processed silver halide based, dye-coupled photographic paper which is exposed to imaging light before processing. Despite the name, it’s not as archival as pigment inks on fine art paper. Prior to the invention of lasers and LED light sources, we printed Fuji CA paper using enlargers directly from film negatives. We also printed on Kodak and Agfa dye coupled papers of course with varying degrees of success as far as longevity is concerned. 


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My understanding is that Fuji Crystal Archive is not an ink jet paper, it is a traditional colour silver halide based paper and can be used in a wet darkroom or the back end of a Fuji  lab printing system.  It won’t work in an Epson large format printer using K3 inks.  

I believe in lab printers it is exposed from digital files by a laser system.  

I have had many prints produced in this way when I have wanted archival quality for exhibitions and my own A3 printer were dye based. 

Cheers

Nigel in the UK

 

 

 

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I fully agree with Peter Marshall. And I'll add, unless you're a high-end photographer/printer, forget all the nonsense about the terribly degrading effects upsizing an image will create. Do a little experimenting on your own. I have several digital cameras including a 6 mp point and shoot from a dozen+ years ago. I particularly liked one of the vacation pics taken on this camera and decided to work it up in PS. When finished, I resized it to 20x30 inches, sharpened it, and had a poster made at Walgreens (!). It's great and is very hard to distinguish from the image on my calibrated monitor. (BTW, at my Walgreens they have a large format Epson printer using K3 inks, prints are made on Fuji Crystal Archive paper.)

The most important thing I've learned in photography is to confirm widely held opinions with my own testing. Most folks just follow the chatter and soon the chatter becomes the gospel. Test for yourself.