Thanks for the update Rachelle. Does the supplier / vendor offer any kind of data sheet for the paper?
Hey, @mooseontheloose ! I have just read the whole thread again and found an old post of yours, from around March 2020, saying that you would “work from home for the next four months”. How did that end up? I thought the same at that time and I’m still mostly working from home!
Thanks for the update Rachelle. Does the supplier / vendor offer any kind of data sheet for the paper?
A long time ago Henning Serger confirmed ...
Henning is a management consultant and lives in a bubble equipped with marketing brochures and likes to act by awarding contracts
Um..... anyone actually used the paper and have an opinion of the results? Sounds like it could be Variant, though looking at the prices on Silverprint website, I see it is mostly available in boxes of 25. Also, it is about 50% more expensive that Variant from my usual suppliers and almost 25% more than Ilford MGFB Classic.
Mike, which size are you referring to and where do you get your Ilford MGFB Classic? I have just had another look at Silverprint prices for 5x7 100 sheet boxes and
MGFB is £56.39 and Ilford Silverchrome Flexgrade RC is £35.83
Yes it is more expensive than the new Ilford RC MG Deluxe but on the above prices, it is £20 cheaper than MGFB and has the weight of Ilford Portfolio RC and is only 5g per square metre lighter than FB and £28 cheaper than the same size Portfolio paper which like FB is 5g heavier per square meter
Frankly it looks a bargain to me. So much so that I wondered what it lacks in my earlier post To pay the difference for FB or its equivalent RC, namely Portfolio it would have to lack something pretty substantial
pentaxuser
I´m the owner of germans “MeinFilmLab“. I have direct contacts to kodak, fuji and Ilford.And do you have more knowledge of the industry?
Maybe it's the old but true story that some prices for X material in certain sizes are lower at some retailers than others. My general impression is that Silverprint is not cheaper for a range of goods but for some reason its Silverchrome in 5x7 is much cheaper than the similar paper of Ilford Portfolio
pentaxuser
I´m the owner of germans “MeinFilmLab“. I have direct contacts to kodak, fuji and Ilford.
It has been suggested to me on another forum called FADU which I have always found to be one not given to making baseless comments that I was maybe not comparing "like with like". That is to say the Silverchrome paper is not in fact the same weight as Ilford Portfolio but that it is quoting its weight on a different basis
Well, the Silverprint site indicates that the weight of the Silverchrome RC paper is 240 gm/sm and the Ilford Portfolio RC paper is 255 gm/sm. Both of which are significantly heavier than the 190 gm/sm for the standard Ilford MG "Classic" paper.
So you have apples, oranges and grapes.
Presumably if this stuff in still being made by Harman Technology for Silverchrome then by now it will be the new emulsion
It is not clear to me that this is the case.
Does anybody have a current box with a "Made in ...." declaration on the label? If so, what does it say?
mooseontheloose?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?