Digital to Silver-based fiber info

I saw this on a newsgroup. Thought it might interest some of you. The

web page needs to be translated but it seems interesting. Hopefully

it will become more common.

Stefan Loeliger wrote:

compared to the united states large format photography is pretty

small in my country (switzerland). anyhow I just saw the first

digital prints with a laserprinter direct on barytpaper (agfa

mcc111) - the quality is awesome! does anyone in the united states

offers the same service...thanks for feedback...

the link is http://www.the-imagepress.de

the company is located in germany near cologne...

Never heard of it but at last somebody made one. I was always

thinking of a laser printer for B&W. There is so many of them for

color, why not B&W.

I can't read german. It would be nice it the web page was

translated into english. If some one has info on this please post

it.

For translation services, try www.babelfish.org I copied text from the above German site into a translator & got:<p>

Technical details and prices for digital exposure on baryte paper

our typesetter works absolutely rasterless in high resolution

with an argon laser. Technically conditionally cannot format-filling

be exposed, it remains always an edge by approx.. 5 mm all around

knows. A condition for the exposure is tiff a gray tone file with at

least 300 dpi dissolution related to the output format. Then with a

dissolution of over 3000 dpi by means of lasers, needs for a 50*60 cm

departure already so its time is exposed. Papers of Agfa, this are

used perfectly conventionally in the bowl are continued to process

and afterwards archivfest gewaessert. Selenium selentonung is possible

on order. The drying process takes place at air with a locking

smoothing with 40 degrees in the press. To each departure processing

minutes are provided.

Prices for the exposure after file posed: Format 1. 54.52 euro 40.60

euro to 40x50 cm 90.48 euro 67.86 euro to 50x60 cm 105.56 euro 80.04

euro demanding you, they make departure each further to 30x40 cm for

us a proof