September 2022 is two years after Kodak Alaris sold the business to Sino Promise.
I ordered(Unique Photo) this Wednesday October 25th and received it on the 27th. I plan on printing this weekend and can post my results. I am a very inexperienced color printer so keep this in mind.View attachment 352204View attachment 352205
That says, EXP next year July? So it is fresh
I don't think any of the Endura (or Royal etc.) paper was ever made in China. AFAIK it was/is all made in Windsor, CO. Since this hasn't been a Kodak entity since 2016, I don't know if it's still fair to speak of 'Kodak standards'. Like you said, 'Endura' is just a trademark. And 'Kodak' is just a brand, used by a number of (by now barely/unrelated) entities...
Preferably get accustomed to cutting it in total darkness. Any other option, test carefully first. Ordinary safelights are a recipe for trouble.
When I want to see in the dark I use IR goggles.Doesn't fog anything.
Carestream?
I have always wondered about these. Do they work well?
I have those exact same goggles, but honestly I find them not to be very useful, and I get better results when I’m working by feel, lol. Although I’m very near-sighted, so the small-ish display probably doesn’t help.
If anyone wants them, PM me. I’m happy to part with them.
i can only concur. Me too using IR googles, they work great, no issue so far.
Does anyone know if this is the correct back printing for Endura?
it looks like I fogged the paper.
It's different from the Endura back print I'm familiar with:
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Note not only the different text, but also the different ink color. I'd have to root around for some prints on Kodak Royal paper that I must have somewhere, but as I recall, the back print on that paper explicitly stated the 'Royal' moniker. I don't remember what color the back print was on that paper.
I don't believe Kodak Endura ever came with a 'digital paper' back print. At least not the Kodak/Carestream-produced Endura.
I find it a little hard to tell what's going on exactly. On the left hand print, I see some cyan fog around the edges that is consistent with orange safelight fogging. My experience is that by the time you have this amount of fog on the white borders, the color balance of the image itself has shifted substantially and natural color reproduction is no longer possible. The difference with a properly made (unfogged) print will be very significant, even if you adjust the filter pack to compensate as far as possible for the fogging.
On the right-hand print, I don't know if the magenta gradient on the white borders is an artefact of the digital photograph or if it's really on the paper. If you have magenta 'fogging' going on, it's weird for sure and not related to your safelight. But I suspect it's just a white balance issue on the digital photo.
Fuji's papers are generally somewhat faster and therefore fog more easily than Kodak Endura.
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