[LargeFormat] Duratrans (was: color transparencies)

[Clive Warren]

At 8:42 am -0800 29/12/01, Les Newcomer wrote:
>huge snip
>
>If I want to display a transparency then I will use Duratrans, because
>it's more permanent. But that needs a neg to print from...
>

Now that's interesting....  The local pro labs here in Bristol used 
to do a great line in display transparencies. Unfortunately they have 
now "gone digital"  so the in-house service they used to offer for 
display trannies has been discontinued. There is a company in London 
who offer the service but it is now prohibitively expensive and you 
can't have a "quick chat" with the person doing the work for any 
enhancements you may require.

I can't remember what the process was called, however I always 
thought that it was carried out using a 4x5 duping process and then a 
projection onto a large sheet of the trannie material.  Maybe this is 
indeed the Duratran and the dupes were onto neg. film.

Do you know more about the Duratran process?

Cheers,
        Clive