Originally Posted by
Drew Wiley
I have my own facility for printing up to 30X40 C-prints, but am trying to decide whether to add a 50" processor. I have been making high-end Cibas since the product first came out, so am extremely familiar with it. Dye transfer is intended more as a retirement hobby,
since it's so time intensive. There is one major local lab still doing custom C-prints the
traditional enlarger manner, but several others using the expensive digital printers. I prefer
the more seamless look of straight optical printing, but the advantage of the big digital
printers is that they can take files from color negs, transparencies, or direct digital capture. Crystal Archive is has much better light resistance than Ciba, or better display life, but will eventually discolor (tend to yellow), so is inferior in terms of dark storage life.
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