At 00:33 1/11/02, Charles Loeven wrote:
What is up with Kodak these days?
Welcome to Qualex [Kodak Premium Processing]!
[rant about Qualex snipped out]
Who does good work on prints from slides these days? Consumer grade is what
I want. Not Exhibition.
Do NOT send slides to Qualex for duping or printing; same applies to
sending them negatives to have slide dupes made from them!!! They don't
know [or don't care] to do it properly. I did it once, only once, and
never will again. Qualex core business is C-41 processing making prints
from color negative. Qualex uses the cheapest method possible for making
prints from slides. The slide is photographed using 35mm internegative
film. The internegative is then printed on their standard color negative
paper. The internegative process can be on par with direct printing if 4x5
inch internegative film is used, but that's custom work done only by pro labs.
Someone else posted The Slideprinter in Denver. I also recommend using
them for inexpensive printing. They direct print on "R" paper with much,
much better results than Qualex.
No matter the process used, getting a good print from a high contrast slide
is very, very difficult. Most labs cannot do it. It requires making a
[very expensive] contrast mask, then custom printing the slide using the
mask. A contrast mask helps, but there's only so much it can do too. The
cost of all this is high enough that contrast masks are typically used only
for making very high end gallery exhbition prints.
-- John
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