What happened to the IlfordPhoto panchro-Paper?

[AgX]

Known as "Ilford Galerie Digital Silver" for commercial use. Once available on two RC and two FB base-papers

It vanished without notice from your website in 2018.

 

[Lachlan Young]

The 4 'lab papers' are on the Harman Technology website here. Likely sold on an MOQ of a certain number of rolls and B2B basis only.

 

[Oren Grad]

In the US they are still listed by B&H, available by special order only.

 

[AgX]

Lachlan, thank you very much!

I did look at the Harman site , but did not look at "Lab Papers", as I misunderstood that term. I knew that the data sheets still were on the Harman server, but with the their old names, thus I thought that they just had been forgotten there. Now they have been renamed to "Harman GDS" (which likely means Galerie Digital Silver, but is not obvious...)


File closed...

 

[Brendan Quirk]

Can this paper be used in a way that resembles Panalure (prints from color negs)? My research indicates it is not intended for darkroom enlarging; rather it is meant for laser machine exposure. But - has anyone tried it?

 

[AgX]

Ilford Photo denied that, but we had a member who posted of having it used under an enlarger successfully.

 

[Lachlan Young]

Can this paper be used in a way that resembles Panalure (prints from color negs)? My research indicates it is not intended for darkroom enlarging; rather it is meant for laser machine exposure. But - has anyone tried it?

It has quite suppressed red response (likely they added just enough to get its sensitivity up to a point to work well with Lambda etc exposure units) - I don't know how it relates to the sensitivity of Panalure etc - which (from what can tell from the available evidence) had higher green sensitivity and relatively even blue and red response.

 

[MattKing]

Can this paper be used in a way that resembles Panalure (prints from color negs)? My research indicates it is not intended for darkroom enlarging; rather it is meant for laser machine exposure. But - has anyone tried it?

Ilford Photo denied that, but we had a member who posted of having it used under an enlarger successfully.

It is designed for high intensity exposure (mostly through lasers) of very short duration.
For that reason, it isn't recommended for use with enlargers.
That doesn't mean that it won't give a result. "Not recommended" is different than "Not to be used".
The minimum order of a 250 foot roll is a bit of a problem though.

 

[AgX]

Where did you get that information about roll length? Harman no longer offers a product listing with stock sizes.

 

[MattKing]

Where did you get that information about roll length? Harman no longer offers a product listing with stock sizes.

https://www.ilfordphoto.ca/product-category/photographic-paper/resin-coated/multigrade-rc-express/
A different product, which I inadvertently conflated with the panchro paper.

 

[AgX]

But yes, that gives an idea what to excpect for the GDS paper.

(I miss the outlay on the product section of the old website design.)