Making Photo Paper: Inside the ADOX Coating Machine

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Photographer and Fine Art Printer Lina Bessonova visited our ADOX factory in Marly, Switzerland (which is our second facility; our headquarter and main factory is in Bad Saarow near Berlin in Germany).
And she made a very nice and informative video report about it:


ADOX - Innovation In Analog Photography.
 

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We had that (Film, Paper, Chemistry - Forum) and it's a great vid, Mirco ! Some of us are very impressed - from your coating machine and from the ''little girl blue'' ....
 
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very interesting tour. now if only the machine could restart spitting out some Ilfochrome paper too... ;-)
 

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Great video! When does the poly-warm tone go on sale? Keep the good stuff comin'
 

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Thank you for sharing this. Fascinating look into the process. I look forward to getting some of the new Polywarmtone!
 

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If you find dog hairs in the emulsion, now you know why.
 

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Above is an earlier interview with Mirko about Adox's history, business model, etc. The interview also includes a significant portion on Adox's production of polywarmtone paper and maybe fall 2019 release. Great and encouraging interview.
 

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I follow Lina on youtube and I just watched her video. I was impressed and happy to see the commitment being made by ADOX. I'll definitely be purchasing some of the B&W products to try. Thanks for all the hard work and dedication.
 

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Great video! Always a pleasure to see the work and progress being made by Team Adox. Already have my cursor on the "buy" button, once Polywarmtone becomes available. Thank you so much for resurrecting such a wonderful paper!!
 

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Interesting that they are running warm (hot?) emulsion into a precision die. I wonder if the die is tempered to match the emulsion temperature? It is very difficult (but not impossible) to heat a die (much) and maintain precision. Aligning a hot die (especially uncorrected) is also quite a challenge. Of course, I am thinking slot die, which is [likely] much more critical than a slide (cascade) die.

At least w/B&W paper they can coat under safe lights. Much easier I suspect than coating panchromatic or color film.

Very cool!
 
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