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: Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:46:26 -0400
References: <F262hm8Ua8d9Ee4zadT0001b393@hotmail.com>

- --On Thursday, April 11, 2002 11:07:54 AM -0400 Albert Wang 
<leica_phile@hotmail.com> 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 suggest you ask Ralph Gibson for the answer to this question.

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Rolfe Tessem
rolfe@ldp.com
Lucky Duck Productions, Inc.

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