Re: filmscanners: Repro house skirmishing (long)

[Chuck Phelps <film2@win.net>]

Tony Sleep wrote:
> 
 So the next question is : where can I get really good R-type or similar
prints
> made from digital files, in London, often overnight? I'm not happy with my own
> Epson 1200 output (good though it is, there are spectral anomalies, and I 
>don't
> know if the dither pattern will interact badly with a fine halftone dot
> screen). I can't find anywhere - I have tried dye sub (too soft) and a local
> co. who have a posh Noritsu dig printer which outputs onto proper paper, but
> that manages to posterise skin tones - an admitted deficiency of the printer
> according to the lab, not my scans.
> 
> It's all very, very frustrating:(

Tony , try to find someone who has a Fuji printer, the guys I do work
for sometimes have the same problems you are having.  It's just with a
few printers though, most of the printers around here have accepted the
fact that they are not going to get the scan work all the time. Though
there is nothing wrong with your scans some of the printers have a
vested intrest in making your scans look bad. (Those scans you get from
photographers arn't any good.)  The printers like to scan off the Fuji
prints.

Good Luck
Chuck Phelps
www.filmserviceinc.com