Every image has a story & every story needs an ending.
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Make an original ending with Fujifilm & Bay Photo
Breathe life into your stories with traditional silver halide photographic prints. Crafted with color processing and printing technology developed over 80 years, let Fujifilm's legacy in color science and Bay Photo's best-in-class printing services give vibrancy to your images and a spark to your creativity.
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From their amazing and brilliant color, to their continuous tones and beautifully rich blacks, images printed on real photo paper bring purpose to any image, especially when they are printed on the right surface.
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Why Using Real Photo Paper is Still the Best Choice
Silver Halide Technology
This technology is based in the traditions of darkroom printing and uses modern processes to create traditional photo prints by exposing paper, embedded with a light-sensitive silver halide emulsion, to latent images and then chemically developing it. This process is unique because the image is fixed into the emulsion’s color-generating layers once it is fully developed, which gives it longevity and durability. The result is a photographic print that is almost identical to the ones that were once traditionally made in darkrooms. Most other printing processes do not involve a light-sensitive, silver halide emulsion, nor do they have a chemical development process. This ultimately makes silver halide printing technology not just a way to print photos, but also the only way to photo prints similar to the ones that we have come to know throughout our lives.
Digital Press Technology
Modern-day digital press technology typically uses either dry or liquid toner in combination with an electro-photographic imaging plate to create the image which will be transferred onto a paper surface utilizing various techniques. The liquid toner process mimics the traditional results of offset lithography to produce prints that retain some of the characteristics and textures of the paper surface being used. The dry toner printing process resembles that of inkjet printing with a random dot pattern and often looks like an image is sitting on top of the paper with a gloss differential hiding much of the characteristics of the paper. While it is an efficient form of printing, the final print produced from a digital press often yields a look that is more like a printing press than a photographic one.
Inkjet Technology
With this printing technology, specially coated paper surfaces allow liquid inks to shallowly penetrate the coating and on matte papers, it will penetrate the paper surface slightly -- only enough to still allow it to properly dry. An involved process that can be done with a desktop printer can be overwhelming having a selection of more than a hundred paper surfaces. Using inkjet printing technology can often require extensive amounts of time to perfect and a reliance on additional knowledge about workflows, color spaces, and other technical concepts to produce consistent and pleasing results.
Silver Halide Technology
Digital Press Technology
Inkjet Technology
