silver prints from digital files

 Hello,
> Hopefully this is helpful, but it must be humbly stated that
> I know NOTHING about this process-- other than I recently attended a
critique/seminar given by a photographer, Jean Miele, who uses a process
called "lightjet" for outputs of his digital files to light-sensitive
papers. There is a special "printer" that exposes the files to a
traditional photographic paper or film using laser beams. the film or paper
is then processed using traditional photo chemistry. I am not sure if this
is a silver based process. Mr Miele's work is entirely black and white, but
some of the websites mentioned that the process uses fuji crystal archive
paper. A google search for "lightjet" turned up many leads if you have the
time to explore further. The prints can be made extremely large. It sounds
like an offshoot of the graphic arts and sign industry that has found a
niche with fine arts photography. I have a few pinhole images that I
thought would look great enlarged to 5 ft square and printed with this
process but it is very expensive.
> good luck,
> Gina Bellando
Received on Mon Nov 4 21:03:39 2002