Ilford put out a press release stating that Ilfochrome (formerly known as Cibachrome) will be distributed to camera stores in the USA and Canada by Wynit. Wynit is a middle-man distributor of photographic and computer products to small and specialty camera stores.

Any of you who have printed Ilfochromes before know just how amazing the result can be. Ilfochrome is an archival color optical print media. Unlike all other color processes that add dyes during processing, Ilfochrome has the dyes added during manufacturing, and the chemical process destroys the unwanted dyes. All other color paper and film is white before processing, while Ilfochrome material is black. Hence, Ilfochromes are known as “Dye Destruction Prints” as compared to a process such as Fuji Supergloss, which is a “Color Chromogenic Print.”

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, go ahead and put a light jet or ink jet print next to an Ilfochrome. I mean a really nice digital print. They best you can find. I’ll take the Ilfochrome any day of the week.

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This entry was posted on Sunday, April 29th, 2007 at 9:00 amand is filed under Notebook & Miscellaneous.