Duratrans - where to get, any alternatives?

[Michael Nagl]

Dear colleagues,

I am planning to make contact prints on duratrans. It seems to be unavailable across the entire city of Vienna. Badger Graphic doesn´t list it. Where can I get it? Are there alternatives (Fuji, Ilford)?

Thanks in advance for your advice
Michael

[Greg Lockrey]

I get mine from a US distributer called DTGweb at http://www.dtgweb.com. It's not Duratrans but just as good. Beautiful stuff. http://www.dtgweb.com/shop/home.php?cat=540

[Michael Nagl]

Thanks Greg,

but I want to make contact prints, analog, RA-4 process!

[Greg Lockrey]

I didn't know that there were two kinds of Duratrans.

[Kirk Keyes]

Thanks Greg,

but I want to make contact prints, analog, RA-4 process!

And then backlight them???

[Michael Nagl]

Yep.

[Gene McCluney]

To those that are unclear about what Duratrans is. Duratrans is/was a Kodak product that you expose like color paper and process in standard RA-4 color print chemistry and it produces a print on a frosted base that can be backlit like a transparency. It was/is extensively used to make display images for large advertising displays and trade show displays that are backlit. There are inkjet materials that produce a similar product, that you run thru your inkjet printer.

I have no idea if Duratrans is still in production, but if it is, you use it just like standard RA-4 color paper, like Kodak Endura. Expose it under the enlarger to a color negative, and process in standard RA-4 color print chemistry.

The material referenced in a previous post above is for making "duratrans" like prints on inkjet printers and is not a darkroom product.

[Clay Turtle]

Yes, I was /am interested in similar material once Both Kodak duratran & Fujitrans are listed & are RA_4 processed. Kodak data guide 2003 / Fuji 2001 but as these are commonly used commerial advertising medium, they are probably still around.

[Donald Miller]

I may be wrong but I think that Duratrans is kaput. At least it was the last time that I checked. I think that it has been supplanted with some material on which they can do injet printing today...certainly not a photosensitive material.

If I were wanting to make rear projected images than I would probably do a digital conversion to the material that allows inkjet printing.

[IanMazursky]

Kodak lists duratrans as discontinued.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...143/e143.jhtml

It has been replaced by Endura clear & Transparency material.
http://www.kodak.com/global/en/profe...14.24.24&lc=en