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Adox Color paper RA4

Freestyle is already accepting advance orders for "Adox 310" in cut sheet up to 20X24 inch size. In that example, it's 25 sheets per box, priced at $99 plus shipping. It would be nice to know exactly which Crystal Archive paper this represents. If it's just more of the same CAii that's already being sold in cut sheet sizes under the Fuji label, what's the point? I'm interested in getting ahold of Maxima gloss.
 
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Sounds like it's geared towards students. Same as usual.

That's OK, hopefully Adox can make a go of it.
 

Interesting.

Tura paper had its name on the back print, I didn't know that Fujifilm did that kind of tailored orders. In case it was Crystal Archive, it should be kind of outdated. The prints I saw from my friend were not very good, specially the whites. They had a warm tint, something I don't recall seeing in CA papers. He even showed a comparison of the same photo printed in Tura paper and DPII (bought in Nordfoto), DPII was better in every aspect including perfect whites.
 
Tura used to produce their own color paper, though I'm not sure when this ended and they began using other manufacturers under the Tura brand.
 
Very good news! Thanks for your efforts!

It is only good news if "we have been apointed by Fuji as the only official manufacturer to buy their genuine master rolls" does not mean buying the remaining rolls and no other will be produced.
 
They had a warm tint, something I don't recall seeing in CA papers

Crystal archive goes yellow when it expires. It takes 1-2 years for this to happen under room temperature storage, but generally closer to 2 in my experience. If you don't adjust filtration for this, the prints will indeed be warm in hue. The whites will also not be white, although in early onset of expiration/shifting, only the image will be affected and not yet the white margins. So what you describe sounds entirely consistent to me with expired Fuji paper.
 
A little bit of yellowing is easy to accommodate. But once the paper turns a grayish-yellow, all the hues and brightness are going to suffer. There used to be a few companies around who liquidated outdated color paper and cold adhesive mounting and laminating rolls at very tempting prices; but it was always a gamble, especially if you didn't use it all up promptly.