Positive to Positive prining, color

[darkroom_rookie]

Still hoping someone might chime in with news on actual existing stock of Ilfoflex paper anywhere in Europe other than Ilford factory...

 

[AgX]

At their website Ilford name 5 European dealers for Ilfocolor.
Can one conclude from your post you phoned them all and they stated not to stock it any longer?

 

[Roger Cole]

Scan (or have scanned) and print ink jet or ligtjet. Much as I hate to admit it, sometimes the good fight just isn't worth it.

 

[darkroom_rookie]

Well, finally found Ilfoflex. 76cmx50m roll costs 658 EUR plus 21% VAT. Pretty expensive, but I'll give it a go this Summer.

 

[Mike Wilde]

I have tried reversal processing RA-4 paper, using a FD mix it yourself ( and in this case let stand for a few days too) recipe Ron Mowery gave me.

Then after the FD, rinse, optically fog, and feed into my rollewr processor like an ordinary print.

The process works, but getting the colours and contrast right has not beemn good enough to call this process viable.

I have a few hunderd feet of Fuji IT-N, and a an illumitran duper for copying 35mm slides.

For 120, and 4x5 transparencies I flip a spare Omega 4x5 dichroic head under an old Polariod copy camera and reduce the slide to a 35mm interneg by long exposures of balanced light while the room is otherwise blacked out.

It has to be an image I really want to see. The process is a hassle.

 

[Andre Noble]

Not what OP was asking about, but related: I have E6 films scanned (Nikon) then digital file printed out by WHCC onto (either Kodak Endura or Fuji Crystal Archive?) RA4 paper that approaches Ilfochromes in surface look. I imagine drum scans even better.

Sadly almost gone now, Ilfochromes were and incredibly beautiful material.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Sadly, cross processing RA4 materials is a difficult way to go. It can work, but you have to select the scene and fiddle with the process. Busy scenes and landscapes work well. Portraits do not.

I have sadly ended up with a mixed work flow for my slides. Scan and print.

PE

 

[henry finley]

It is astounding to me that color negative and printing isn't the dead process. NOT Kodachrome and Cibachrome--the only permanent color processes that exist(ed). Doesn't make sense. It should be the negatice-to-print processes to have been killed by the computer and digital. They don't last but a few years. A Kodachrome slide and a Cibachrome print were forever. Even if you used E-6 which is a temporary thing, once the Cibachrome/ Ilfochrome print was made, there was your permanence right there.