[LargeFormat] Duratrans (was: color transparencies)
Clive Warren
largeformat@f32.net
Sat Dec 29 13:56:24 2001
At 8:42 am -0800 29/12/01, Les Newcomer wrote:
>huge snip
>
>If I want to display a transparency then I will use Duratrans, because
>it's more permanent. But that needs a neg to print from...
>
Now that's interesting.... The local pro labs here in Bristol used
to do a great line in display transparencies. Unfortunately they have
now "gone digital" so the in-house service they used to offer for
display trannies has been discontinued. There is a company in London
who offer the service but it is now prohibitively expensive and you
can't have a "quick chat" with the person doing the work for any
enhancements you may require.
I can't remember what the process was called, however I always
thought that it was carried out using a 4x5 duping process and then a
projection onto a large sheet of the trannie material. Maybe this is
indeed the Duratran and the dupes were onto neg. film.
Do you know more about the Duratran process?
Cheers,
Clive