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Mastering Digital Printing
Solutions (New York City), and Photo Craft Laboratories (Boulder, Colorado) have one
or more LightJets, Lambdas, Frontiers, wide-format inkjets, laser printers, or whatever digital
devices they need to satisfy their customers’ imaging needs.
Digital Photo Print
One important non-inkjet technology that photographers are especially fond of (although
non-photographic digital artists can use them as well) is digital photo print (described in
Chapter 2). This print process requires outside service providers since the cost of the equipment
is too high for self-ownership. Photo labs, service bureaus, imaging centers, online
vendors, and even retailers like drugstores and large discount chains are where you’ll find
this type of print service. Imagemakers typically submit final, RGB, digital files on
CD/DVD or online. Scans from reflective art, slides, or negatives are usually also available.
Wide-format LightJet, Lambda, or Chromira prints are output to regular photographic
paper (only), and print prices can range from $20 to $500 depending on the final size. As
with some inkjet printmakers, digital photo print providers like Calypso Imaging will allow
4-up ganging of multiple images on one sheet at no extra cost.
New Jersey photographer Paul Eric Johnson loves his LightJet prints on Fuji Crystal
Archive paper for their “sense of a pureness” in his photography. He scans his transparencies
at NancyScans in New York, does the image-editing on his computer, and then ships
his images on CD all the way to Calypso Imaging in California for output. (Calypso has
set up an FTP account for Johnson so he can upload his images to them.) Calypso also
produces inkjet reproduction prints on Epson inkjet printers.
Kevin Scanlon managed the Costco
Frontier lab in Cranberry Township,
Pennsylvania (outside of Pittsburgh).
Courtesy of Larry Berman
www.LarryBerman.com