[LargeFormat] Duratrans (was: color transparencies)

[Tim Atherton]

Well - you can do display transparencies using a Lightjet print from a scan
of your image - neg or tranny.

BTW - I just had a 24x30 Lightjet print made from a scan of a 4x5 colour
negative. Did the scan on my Epson 1640 and upscaled with Genuine Fractals.
As this was a first time test of Lightjet prints for me, I also had a 24x30
"traditional" print made by a lab I know and use.

Well... first, the Lightjet print came out just as expected from my scan -
not only that, it was stunning. By comparison, the regular print looked
disappointing. The Lightjet was sharper, more crisp and better colour. Now,
I did do work on it in Photoshop, obviously, so I could get it just how I
wanted. But the Trad print was also a custom print, with dodging and burning
etc and running a test print. The Lightjet print just blew it away. The
traditional print just couldn't get there.  And it was cheaper.... I'm sold

tim a

> -----Original Message-----
> From: largeformat-admin@f32.net [mailto:largeformat-admin@f32.net]On
> Behalf Of Clive Warren
> Sent: December 29, 2001 12:02 PM
> To: largeformat@f32.net
> Subject: [LargeFormat] Duratrans (was: color transparencies)
>
>
> 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
>
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