Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Azo was discontinued in 2005. http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/g10/g10.pdf Fomalux is definitely nothing like the Lodima paper not is Fomalux new. It was always offered in Eastern Europe but just wasn't shipped to the rest of the world. Until the mid 1990s it could be bought on a single weight fibre base, as could the Foma document paper, but they were both transferred to a light weight resin coat base and then the document paper was discontinued. Fomalux is an RC paper and is not a pure chloride paper and Michael was very definite that he would only be happy with a pure chloride paper on a fibre base. I still have a few dozen boxes of Azo in grades 2, 3 and 4 and it's lovely, but I am always suspicious of peddlars of magical formulas. Chloro-bromide papers in appropriate developers look different but just as nice to me. I prefer glossy FB surfaces to matte inkjet papers, but good inkjet prints look great (but different) too. And for contact printing nothing comes close to good Pt/Pd printing on an appropriate abase and surface - but too much modern Pt/Pd printing is done on papers that don't show the medium to its best advantage. Marty On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Frank Filippone <red735i at earthlink.net> wrote: > AZO has been gone for like 10++ years. ?Michael Smith bought up the > remainders, and uses it ( exclusively) to produce his contact prints for > sale. ?It is said he had refrigerators full of the stuff. ?He was selling > some as well, but prices were pretty high. ?Nonetheless, he was the only > supply of this fine contact paper. > > He went on a mission to find or make a replacement. ?He hitched up with > some > company ( name never disclosed as far as I know) to retool the paper. ?I > guess it took him over 5 years to get something he was happy with. ?He now > sells that paper under the Lodima name..... ?( Amidol backwards) ...... > ?and > it is quite pricey. > > The fact that Freestyle is offering Formalux paper is encouraging..... it > may be the same paper or it may be one of the papers that Michael rejected > for quality. > > Anyway,, for a B+W paper in today's market, it is amazing that something > new > was added to the printers' toolkit. > > Frank Filippone > Red735i at earthlink.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >