Category: The Biz

printon before ciba

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do you expend, or do you expand

… and Printon took an hour to soup .. it also had latency effect; the color balance changed over time between exposure and processing. A print that was exposed and processed beginning within 15 minutes of the exposure time looked one color, whereas, one which took 45 minutes before processing looked a different way. 15 minutes to 45 minutes varied towards the warm colors showing up more in a flashed border, making it possible to have a neutral print but warm toned borders; portrait shops loved it. Ansco filters were too broad stepped for fine rendering so I used them along with exposure thru wratten filters to achieve better color clarity. 

Along with these operations I could overprint using dye transfer matrices. This knowledge expanded to other print materials. I never knew of anyone else doing these things even though I told Kodak reps along with teaching methods to employees, and later, art students.

Color in one line: Dye- /coupling /transfer /destruction /diffusion

[ prelude … ]

noted: “Like many, I watched with sorrow in February as the Washington Post slashed its staff, including its classical music critic, Michael Andor Brodeur. That blow came a little less than a year after the New York Times shook up its culture desk and reassigned its classical music critic, Zachary Woolfe, to serve as the obituaries editor. (The paper is now actively searching for a new classical music critic.)” from: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2026-09-25/essential-arts-template?

bookmark: sofia borges

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all the standard spaces reviewed the work… that is expected for a Mack publication.

from mack: https://www.mackbooks.us/products/the-swamp-br-sofia-borges?

>> In 2016 Borges wan the British First Book Award with her full authorial (works, poems, text and graphic design) and first book: THE SWAMP

The award announcement and official launching by Mack happened at PhotoLondon 2016, together with a solo show of the artist. With an edition of 1.000, the book got officially sold out a few months after.

AND >> Lives and works in New York City, USA.
Born 1984 in Ribeirão Preto, Brazil.

Sofia Borges is a conceptual artist who uses photography, assemblage and performance to delve into philosophical questions surrounding the artifacts of culture, in special the museological object, and their relation to matter, to the transmutation of the meaning of that matter throughout time, and to being, consequently, intricate and liquid manifestations of culture [ she wrote; i quote ]

NOTED: https://sofiaborges.carbonmade.com/projects/5908812

her words..

Fuji Maxima or Fuji *x

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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 .

DPII silk 2026-04-18 at 10.46.57 AMDownload

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.

Notice Regarding the Discontinuation of Fujifilm Color Paper (CLP) Sheet Type _Download

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