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Old 18th October 2015, 09:00 PM
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We haven't started marketing it yet, but in the last week or so we have managed to get our Lightjet printer fully operational. This has been a long time in coming and a HUGE amount of fiddling around, but now enables us to expose prints up to 50"x120" at astonishingly high quality.

It also opens up the possibility to start offering the Ilford Galerie Digital Silver paper, which would make us one of only 3 labs in the UK offering this service (the other two being Ilford themselves, and Metro Imaging in London). But this service will come later on, when we are fully comfortable with all the regular C-Type printing.

In conjunction with this, we have taken the plunge and ordered a new Hasselblad Flextight X5 scanner last week - all very well having the best digital photographic printer ever made, but pointless feeding it with anything other than the best quality files! It's on the way over from Sweden and is expected here later in the week.

So we will be looking at some special launch offers, probably along the lines of free Flextight scan of any negative / transparency when any large print (16x20"+) is ordered from said negative.

I'll keep the forum posted.
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Old 18th October 2015, 10:27 PM
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That sounds like a VERY impressive bit of kit, however I don't have the need for truly massive prints, I am quite happy with my 12x16's even if I have to work hard to get them
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good luck matt hope it all goes well for you ,and I will be looking forward to updates all the best







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I've got a 6x6 neg I'd like to have printed out fairly large, but it would involve a minor crop as well as colour matching to an existing print. Why is it, most labs don't publish prices for square prints ?
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Good luck Matt, and thanks again for the superb service this week it was truly awesome.
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Many thanks for that!
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Old 22nd October 2015, 07:22 PM
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I've got a 6x6 neg I'd like to have printed out fairly large, but it would involve a minor crop as well as colour matching to an existing print. Why is it, most labs don't publish prices for square prints ?

Hi Paul - these are our prices from digital file.

http://www.ag-photolab.co.uk/square-sizes-149-c.asp

Prices from film will be published shortly - they will be a little more, simply because of the necessity for film handling.

However, we do intend to do a special offer for print from film where we will be including a Flextight scan free of charge when a print from file over 16x20 (or 20x20 in square) is ordered. In otherwords, the prices on that link would be inclusive of the scan.

It's no problem cropping / matching to an existing colour.
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However, we do intend to do a special offer for print from film where we will be including a Flextight scan free of charge when a print from file over 16x20 (or 20x20 in square) is ordered.
When you do, I'll see about packaging the existing print and neg up - Your prices look very reasonable, and I'm almost tempted to go real big. Would probably be an idea to have a small section printed first to see what the grain would be like.
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How large a Neg can you scan in a Flextight ?

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It covers anything up to 5x4 Martin.
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