Yes, it's confusing and I'm afraid Fuji themselves aren't helping, either.
This is the most recent EU-manufactured product list I have:
Supreme and HD are two different series on website of Fujifilm US.
Ignore the US website. It's a mess when it comes to paper names. Specifically the US branch seems to list papers that no longer exist and they have renamed papers that are manufactured and sold elsewhere under a different name. This greatly adds to the confusion.
The image above is from a sampler kit I got from the people who manufacture the paper. It's as close to the source as you can get. It's also fairly recent, although everything in this product range is subject to change.
I can't get any information or data from Fujifilm CN.
That's a pity; I fear that Fuji has so far virtually ignored the Chinese market. I hope/expect this will change in the future.
In the meantime, your best bet is to go to
https://www.originalphotopaper.com/en/ and fill out the contact form, asking where you can obtain the paper(s) of your choice. They should forward your question to the local Chinese branch and hopefully they will respond.
However,no 'Supreme HD Digital' was printed on the case,I only saw 'Crystal Archive HD' and are they the same paper?
My apologies; refer to the image above for the correct name. This should match what you see on boxes of
recent production paper. Older boxes may contain other names. Also, the back print on the paper may not exactly match the printing on the box/label. Another source you can refer to (at least for time being) is the list on the Original Photo Paper website:
https://www.originalphotopaper.com/en/products/photographic-papers/
This also contains the datasheets of these papers.
The name I gave you is based on some paper I purchased about 2 years ago, which has the following back print:
The datasheet of
"Supreme HD" paper matches this back print, so I think we can safely assume it's the same paper; they just changed the name under which it is being sold/retailed. This is from the datasheet:
As you can see, this matches the paper I've used. It works fine, within the limitations I indicated earlier.
Only one Crystal Archive paper is showed,which with no suffix,just Crystal Archive.
That is the entry-level Crystal Archive; see the product list in the first image above. It has the most mottling in the blacks, lowest dmax and lowest saturation. For some subjects such as high-key portraits it can be a quite good paper.
Note that archival stability is better as you go down in the list of papers (ignoring the Album papers). So plain Crystal Archive has the worst keeping properties of the lot (still far better than Lucky paper, however) while Maxima has the best archival stability.
The differences in the papers is the thickness of the image-forming layers, thickness of intermediate layers and the thickness of the top protective layer. This affects dmax, saturation/gamut and archival properties. Part of the explanation I published earlier here:
https://tinker.koraks.nl/photograph...importance-of-interlayers-in-ra4-color-paper/
I'm not familiar with these. These are either Japanese-production papers (although I think they only produce a small amount for the Japanese market, under a different name) or (more likely) the European papers sold under a different name for marketing purposes. Refer to the datasheet to see how they match with the internationally-known papers, or see if you can get some information from Fuji representatives on the true identity of these papers.
But their emulsion is produced by Fujifilm
Either the paper is made by Fujifilm in its entirety, or it isn't. I don't think Fujifilm sells emulsion to 3rd parties for coating elsewhere, nor do I believe they have the technical capability of doing so even if they wanted to. The company should be able to tell you what actual paper it is.
Note that there are several companies out there that purchase Fuji papers and sell under their own name. Sometimes Fuji even produces these under the brand name the customer requires. Up to recently, Tura in Europe was one example.
