Digital BW, The Print

As a color and black and white lab owner and technician for 30+ years, RA4 
is a color process using color paper.  The lab might be able to filter it 
to near black and white, but it is still on color paper with all of the 
process instability of a color print.  Find you a good black and white 
darkroom or a digital lab.  Don't have a black and white image printed on a 
paper using RA4 chemistry if you want the image to be as good as it should 
be and last as long as it should last.

At 05:12 PM 6/10/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi, I just made a sale for one of my images.  The client wants it as
>a 20x30.  SInce I only have an Epson 2200, I obviously can't do this
>one myself.  My local pro place no longer does wet darkroom prints;
>the guy said they output everything digitally but develop it in RA-4
>chemicals, which aren't "real black and white."  It would be $66 for
>the print and an extra $15 if I had them scan it (drum scan) as
>opposed to supplying them with the file  (I admit I have no idea what
>RA-4 is and how it compares to a traditional black and white print).
>
>So, my questions are: (1) Has anyone used RA-4 process for black and
>white enlargements, and what was your impression of the
>quality/tonality, etc?  and (2) Does anyone know of good places I
>could send the negative or scan to for output this large?
>
>Thanks!
>
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