graywolf wrote: > Actually, I think, most modern commercial labs use some variation > of laser printing (and not a very high res one, either) on photographic > paper these days (Fuji Frontier, etc).
The lab I use has a pair of Agfa D-Labs (a -2 and a -3). They print at 400ppi continuous tone. Note that being a continuous-tone process you can't directly compare it with inkjet resolutions (ppi vs dpi and all that sort of thing). The built-in film scanner in these machines is only 2k x 3k pixels. The emphasis of these machines is speed rather than fine-art quality. I have submitted my own files before and the results were excellent. But the 18x12" prints I had done from 6x7 were less than ideal (luckily these were freebies). One day I'd like to have a 6x7 slide drum scanned, then have a giclee print made. I would love to see what that process is capable of. Cheers, - Dave http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/
