[Leica] Why are professional labs unwilling to do pigment dye transfer and Cibachrome?

["Albert Wang" <leica_phile@hotmail.com>]

Hi everyone,

I called up a few professional labs in the Philadelphia area to check out 
their options on color printing and found out there was no one who does 
either Pigment Dye Transfer or Cibachrome processing anymore. My question is 
why are these standard color processing technique dying out all over? Why 
has digital methods taken over? Can a digitally colored print approximate 
the quality of the pigment dye transfer or Cibachrome prints? Personally my 
gut feelings is that they are not.

I doubt that most standard color processing can be as archival as Pigment 
Dye Transfer or Cibachrome but printing on Duraflex seems to be fairly close 
in today's world.

Alfie

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