Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Why are professional labs unwilling to do pigment dye transfer and Cibachrome?
From: Jeffery Smith <jsmith45@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 10:43:44 -0500

Prints made on the Epson 2000P are also supposed to be archival.

At 10:07 AM 4/11/02, you wrote:
>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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