The differences are market purpose, plant of production, patent.
Skill doesn’t answer to the 20 prints a year beggar
Date: December 6, 2018 Durst Lambda exp values AND — 2011, Ciba display
| Material | Red | Green | Blue |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUJIFLEX Crystal Archive Printing Material | 51, | 50, | 47 |
| FUJICOLOR Crystal Archive Professional Maxima | 51, | 51, | 49 |
| Exposure of Ciba [CT.F7 ] using same exposing system: | 38, | 46, | 46 |
USA fuji retailers follow simple rules ..fuji’s number is assigned making it easy to comparison shop, even for the thick fingered shopper.
the larger distributors lead the buyer into the catalog using type, meaning surface.
in the days of yore, when the market for photographic materials had more than five conglomerate suppliers, Pearl, Satin, Silk were names with bearing for the wedding-portrait industry. They mimicked the cloth of the wedding. Making a duplicate from them involved knowing the trick of “water” copying.
Also supplied were papers made for murals, or charcoal character prints– of course, for hand painting, Canvas.
Only inkjet papers come close to what was once expected of the manufacturers.
on the matter of knowing more than anyone else: maybe you’ve stopped learning .. proving yourself superior to the vendors is what sort of refuge .
Kodak,1942… sample book providing the casual user guidance on paper choice. Marketing has always played a role in commerce land.
it’s wrong/right because {h} says so. it becomes too easy to doubt the bloviator at the end of the sales-counter. they hold opinions that seem made of sand. unstable without direct references … all hand waving declarations centered upon their expertise. if they make enough claims occasionally they’re right .
Maxima, when introduced, was a direct sales item… Fuji USA sold it directly, assuming it was a specialist item that premier labs (5 in US) would sell as a premium exhibition product. After COVID that changed. Many (3) of those 5 switched to offering inkjet solutions. One San Francisco lab had sold their much revered Poly after moving. Exhibition printing demanded larger more flexible surfacing not available with silver-halide paper.
Now, in 2026, it seems B&H, the home to the weekender sells Maxima.
Prior posts:
- buying fuji maxima
- overnight scraps.. wade thru for mentions,terms
- https://www.originalphotopaper.com/news/our-range-of-paper-surface-types/
- ‘chromogenics’
- AIM points – 2, 3, 5
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