widest RA4 paper

[rbrigham]

hi All

is 50" the widest RA4 paper that is made or is it cut from a wider roll
120" would be nice ...

best

robin

 

[halfaman]

I don't think there is anything wider because I don't think there is nowadays a commercial printer for it. I have seen monster lambda printers with the size of a small room but not used since decades (and offered for a couple of thousand dollars in ebay). I don't think either Kodak or Fuji bother doing special paper orders.

 

[foc]

The widest roll Fuji supply in Crystal Archive is 127cm x 50m.( a roll that size must be nearly 30kg).
I imagine that wide format inkjet has taken over from RA4in the bigger sizes.

 

[Lachlan Young]

Biggest you can get is 72" Kodak Endura - the coated width of the Carestream Colorado machine. Quite a few places still do enlarger printing on it as well as a few folk still doing lambda/ lightjet output on it, but they're going to be buying business to business as part of a larger order, thus what retailers have is only the most popular items.

 

[Bob Carnie]

Biggest you can get is 72" Kodak Endura - the coated width of the Carestream Colorado machine. Quite a few places still do enlarger printing on it as well as a few folk still doing lambda/ lightjet output on it, but they're going to be buying business to business as part of a larger order, thus what retailers have is only the most popular items.

I agree with Lachlan, I have used it in the past life, I am not sure where you can get this size now processed but someone is doing Gurskys and his clones work.

 

[DREW WILEY]

Only a small selection of Fuji paper is present on typical dealer websites. You need to ask someone who has the actual catalog numbers. There might also be reserves of large rolls of Super C. It stores reasonable well unless conditions are hot or humid. FujifilmUSA might or might not be helpful. Customer service positions there are sometimes staffed by entry level idiots, just like numerous other corporations.

 

[Lachlan Young]

I agree with Lachlan, I have used it in the past life, I am not sure where you can get this size now processed but someone is doing Gurskys and his clones work.

Grieger in Dusseldorf do Lightjet and enlarger printing onto the 72" roll, Metro in London do Lightjet (I think - did Durst ever make a 72" Lambda?) on the 72" roll, Bayeux in London swallowed up Michael Dyer Associates who do/ did enlarger printing up to 72" on the short side. Those are the ones I know of who are still active-ish running the 72" roll.

As it is, I wish Ilford would cut more of its papers into 30" rolls than just the Panchro-Galerie for the Lambda...