Ilfachrome Prints from Digital?

[Zee 0]

Anyone out there ever try to get Ilfachrome prints made from a Digital camera?

I was just wondering - I have a few pictures that I've had printed on regular photo paper and Ilfachrome and the difference is unreal - The Ilfachrome prints have a color depth and clarity that is simply unbelievable. From what the lady at the lab told me, they could only make Ilfachrome prints from slides.

I was just wondering if anyone has ever tried getting an Ilfachrome print from a digital image, or if it can even be done.?


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Z

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[PhreeZone 20]

Not sure if its the same thing but Norman Kent offered a printing thats very metalic looking. The colors actually reflect the light depending on how you look at it. Makes it kinda holographic looking.

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She is right. Ilfochrome prints, also known as Cibachrome, are made from projecting an image directly from your slide or transparency onto a sheet of Ilford cibachrome print paper and then processed in cibachrome chemicals. Seeing that you do not have slides, transparencies or negs from digital format, you get no cibachrome. But wait your in luck.
If it is highend digitalcolor prints you are looking for try color piezo prints. Contact a pro-processing lab. 8.6x11 prints start at around $50.00 up to $800.00 for a 44x132. Expensive, yes, but it is the only thing that will rival cibachrome printing. True, they do not have the museum quality that a cibachrome or fiber base will give you but they look great just the same.

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[Zee 0]

Thanks for the info - For the most part, I'm quite happy with the digital prints I can make at home, but when you get that one special shot, it's always nice to make an Ilfachrome print to hang on the wall. The cost is a bit higher but the difference in quality is well worth it.


Thanks again,
Z

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[ffp1974 0]

kodak now had a metallic paper . Most professional labs are offering prints using this paper.

Go to mpix.com. I have seen samples and they are tremendous. Plus you can send your digital file via the internet.

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Ps. reasonably priced.

[Zee 0]

That looks like a great idea.

Thanks,
Z

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[JayhawkJumper 0]

Ilfachrome and cibachrome are the same process, ilford just bought it and changed the name. There are now two ways professional labs make prints. They make them optically, but projecting light through the slide or negative, or digitally, but using what is basically a high tech LCD projector to project a scanned image onto the paper. The paper, using either way is then processed through chemicals. It would stand to reason that you could use a digital printer to print ilfachrome prints, but I haven't heard of it. As mentioned before in this thread, Kodak makes an incredible paper called Metallic. It's really impossible to describe, you have to see it to believe it. It is incredible though. In my opinion, its better than ilfachrome.

If you do want an ilfachrome print made from a digital image, its absolutely possible. If you can't find a lab that does them digitally, have a slide made from your digital file, which is done all the time at most labs. I've had slides made from digital files anywhere from 35mm to 8x10. Just don't get a display slide made, get one that's photo quality. Then have the print made from that.

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Hey Zee, i can vouch for the metallic paper. R.Smith had some printed and they looked incredible, even if they were of Moffett.

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