Fuji Crystal Archive printing services in Europe?

[seppo_niiranen]

I am trying to find large format Fuji C A printing service (using Lightjet or similar) in Europe. Seems there

is none local, but I would guess there is bound to be some in EU area, they can't be all in States :-)

Printing size would be 50X75 cm or 75X100 cm, exhibition quality. Any pointers?

[Richard Williams]

They must surely exist - e.g. 'The Earth from the Air' uses very large CA prints in the travelling exhibition:

 

http://www.earthfromtheair.com

 

and namechecks these guys:

 

http://chameleondigital.com

 

- might be worth a call. You could also try contacting some of the major London pro labs like those listed in this thread:

 

http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00HMC2

 

or ask Fujifilm directly:

 

http://www.fujifilm.eu

[remco-jan.woldhuis]

You can try www.foto.com. I think they work Europe wide, but I'm automatically diverted to

the dutch website.

 

They offer Fuji Crystal archive paper but I have no idea about the quality they offer.

[simon_meeds]

I am no expert on Fuji digital print technologies, though I have had prints done on Fuji Crystal Archive up to 15"x10".

 

www.photobox.co.uk was recommended to me (though I haven't used them and therefore cannot comment on quality). I notice they do prints up to 15" x 10" on Fuji Crystal Archive using FujiFilm Frontier printers and "posters" up to 30" x 20" (76cm x 51cm) on FujiFilm Professional digital photographic paper using a Polielectronica Laserlab printer. Maybe (as I believed up to now) Crystal Archive and Frontier only supports up to 15"x10".

[Richard Williams]

After a little more digging, it looks like Lambda machines are more common in Europe than Lightjets, e.g.:

 

http://www.metroimaging.co.uk/prices/digitalservices_prices.asp

 

though at least one place in London has a Lightjet:

 

http://www.bayeux.co.uk/digital.html

 

Frontiers printing on Crystal Archive are very common in the UK, but as noted above the print size is limited. Fuji certainly supplies larger paper sizes for the large format printers. I don't know what Bayeux etc. use in their machines.