Digital BW, The Print

And Ilford conventional products distributor is Wynit in the US.
Mark

On Feb 21, 2007, at 12:43 PM, sinar001 wrote:

> Maybe a little background into what has happened to Ilford is in  
> order!
>
> Just this morning I had a nice extended conversation with Gregg LaNoue
> of Ilford, and he gave me a brief history of what has happened to
> Ilford lately.
>
> It was bought by a Japanese company called Oji. Then the British part
> was sold off to a management group and is known as Harman's. They
> stricktly market B&W films, papers, etc under the Ilford name. Any
> inkjet products are marketed under the Harman brand.
>
> Gregg told me that Ilford, Switzerland has had over $10 million spent
> on coating plant improvements/expansion in Switzerland. Ilford is
> planning to once again start marketing Ink Jet papers in the US under
> the "Galerie" lable.
>
> Ilford's Bingham, NY & New Jersey locations have been closed, and a
> new office has been opened in Springfield, Mass.
>
> They are also exploring a Baryta product, and will have a presence at
> PMA with the product. This product is still under development, and is
> a different product than what the Harman company is showing.
>
> I should note, that about 5 or six years ago, Ilford developed an
> inkjet paper that had the "air-dried" look, but was only 4 mils in
> thickness.
>
> Gregg promised to send me some sample product when it becomes  
> available.
>
> John Nollendorfs
> --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com, "dmdctusa"
> <dmdornctusa@...> wrote:
>>
>> I think that after a week of testing I have found Nirvana (or maybe
>> Near Nirvana, time will tell).  As background my wet darkroom
>> printing was 99% glossy paper which was air dried and my develper of
>> choice was and still is Harvey's 777.  This paper has gotten me
>> closer to the "look:" than any I have tried.
>>
>> According to Harman's info, the coating base is Baryta, the same as
>> used for the base of high quality silver emulsion paper.  The
>> increase in sharpness and depth of the blacks when compared to other
>> matt papers is amazing.  NOTE: this is not an ILFORD injet product.
>> The Ilford injet paper business was acquired by another company from
>> Ciba-Geigy.  The Harmon injet paper shows the Ilford technology in
>> silver based papers.
>>
>> For the record,  my work flow:
>>
>> Computer: Custom Duo Core 1.8ghz PC, AOpen mb with Intel chips, WinXP
>> Pro.
>>
>> Scan: color neg or B&W film with Nikon Coolscan 4000 (with Nikonscan
>> or Vuescan, whichever is better on the given day)
>>
>> Edit: Lightroom v1.0 for initial conversion and edits. Final levels
>> set in Lightzone v2.1 and then back to LR for final printing.
>>
>> Printing: Epson 2200 - a) for black only straight to the printer from
>> LR (UC inks) or b) export image for printing with Quadtone RIP.
>>
>> For me the key to this flow is the use of LZ from within LR to set my
>> black and white levels; the plus is that LZ lets me work on regions
>> as well as the overall image.
>>
>> Finally, the LR/LZ edit interface seem to work well.  It appears that
>> if I open the LZ edit image from the LR file I can still access the
>> LZ levels etc and save the image back to the LR file with the changes
>> reflected in LR.  I would appreciate someone else confirming this is
>> in fact happening.
>>
>> Comments from anyone who has tested this paper would be most welcome
>> and of interest to other members of the forum!
>>
>> David Dorn
>>
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