New site launched by my mates company (not the printers, the developers of the site). They showed me some C-Type prints they had in the office from this client and I have to say I was blown away (this particular example was using metallic paper).

Then they showed me the site and the prices and I was equally impressed.

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Planning on getting some panoramic stuff done through them soon, thought Id share the link



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ooops, just been told sites still in beta, not ready for public ordering until next week. Will put the link back up then

And for those of us who had too much to eat at lunchtime and are too tired to use Google .... C-Types are better because ...

What blew you away about the ones your saw printed?  How much better than a normal print are they?  And lastly, how much for how much?

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Aye...not that Im a photographic buff or anythign but Ive never even heard of c-type stuff and the likes. Guess Ill have to google...

metallic paper and stuff would be cool if you can use metallic inks n things...

QuoteA c-type print, such as Ektachrome, is a colour print in which the print material has at least three emulsion layers of light sensitive silver salts. Each layer is sensitised to a different primary colour - either red, blue or green - and so records different information about the colour make-up of the image. During printing, chemicals are added which form dyes of the appropriate colour in the emulsion layers. It is the most common type of colour photograph.

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Sounds like its just a normal kind of lab-photographic print job then. As opposed to inkjets, its like getting them printed at boots?

zpyder - ha ha, you must have googled and selected the identical link to me when I looked it up as the description is identical.

I am curious whether this would even be noticable under a certain sized print?

Heres a copy of whats on their site;

QuotePhotographic process prints are made using our Chromira. Known as digital C-Types, it produces digital C41 process prints up to 30" wide. Taking up the area of a small room, it is considered by those in the know as the cutting edge in digital photographic printing. Since a digital C Type is a true photographic process print, the colour integrity and ability for C Types to produce subtle variance of tone is unparalleled.

C-Types also have an outstanding capacity for longevity - which is why digital c types are considered by the industry as true archival quality. Using LED diodes to expose the paper, digital ctype technology means that for each red, green and blue channel, 256 levels of tone are able to be produced per pixel. The result - over 16.7 million possible variations of colour for each of the 300 points in an inch!

With the addition of a stunning array of paper types available, digital C Types are truly a revolutionary step in the ability for photographers, graphic designers, and visual artists to produce truly beautiful prints. Theprintspace use Fuji Crystal Archive papers to ensure prints are of the utmost quality.

From the examples I saw on a variety of different papers (Fuji Crystal Archive Matt & Gloss, Kodac Metallic and Fuji Transparent) and the prints just seemed richer/more detailed/more life like.

Heres the best part specifically about these guys (now I might not be in the know so I maybe getting over excited about this.)

30" x 40" = 40 quid (on any of those papers I mentioned)
30" x 90" = 90 quid (once again any paper) - thats 2.2,m x 0.75m ! Perfect for my panoramics.

Seems quite reasonable to me considering the sheer size of em.

As great as it sounds, the cynic in me is thinking "but they dont say what the difference is between that and a normal kodak print". Apart from the size and paper options isnt the rest just the norm for printing prints?

And Im not sure how half my photos would look at that size either ><

Its a normal photograph only 30x90inches in size.

Pah, who need to fork out £40 for a 30x90 inch photo when you can rasterbate it?