Adox Color paper RA4

[ADOX Fotoimpex]

@ADOX Fotoimpex, can you share which type(s) of Fuji paper do you intend to convert?

The same as bevore: CA.

 

[DREW WILEY]

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.

 

[mshchem]

Sounds like it's geared towards students. Same as usual.

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

 

[halfaman]

Except the fact that it has......
Tura has been for many decades a well established photo company in Germany. They had a very close relationsship with Agfa in Leverkusen, and their main business has been finishing (converting, confectioning) of Agfa films and photopapers, selling it under their Tura brand.

Then during the "digital revolution" they had an insolvency, but continued as company PhotoStar, and Tura continued to be used as their brand name for their products.
They have the equipment to cut paper from master rolls and finish it into products for end consumers like photo labs. That is their main business.
During about the last decade they bought their paper from Fujifilm. Before their cooperation they used paper from DNP, if I remember right.
When DNP stopped RA-4 paper production, PhotoStar/Tura switched to Fujifilm.

Concerning Adox RA-4 photo paper:
They have always been absolutely honest that that is not coated by themselves, but only finished by them into sheets. They used Fujifilm paper as their source. As Fujifilm is the only remaining producer of RA-4 photo paper, we also know what they are using now .

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 In case it was Crystal Archive, it should be kind of outdated.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.

 

[miha]

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.

 

[koraks]

Tura paper had its name on the back print, I didn't know that Fujifilm did that kind of tailored orders.

They do.

 

[SMD]

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.

 

[koraks]

the remaining rolls and no other will be produced

Fuji are producing normally and are supplying the market with hundreds of millions of square meters of paper annually.

 

[koraks]

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.

 

[DREW WILEY]

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.