Kodak has discontinued the process. But supposedly, Dr. Jay Patterson is
trying to recreate the process. The people who are doing the coating for
the matrix film are in Cedar Rapids (same company that coats the
UltraStable sheets). The Fax of Dr. Patterson is: 1-713-963-8650. He is
supposed to announce the availability soon, but it has been like this for
the last year or so;-)
All this information comes from Bob Pace, one of the most prominent Dye
Transfer commercial printers. You can reach him at: BPace10552@aol.com
I even received the following mail that is pertinent to the subject:
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>X-Sender: james.browning@valley.net (Unverified)
>Mime-Version: 1.0
>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 1995 22:48:27 -0500
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>To: deriencg@micronet.fr
>From: james.browning@valley.net (Jim Browning)
>Subject: Dye Transfer
>
>This is Jim Browning, president of Digital Mask, a high end digital photo
>lab in New Hampshire. I saw your post about Dye Transfer. We have tried
>Dr. Paterson's film, and got very strange results, I hope he isn't on the
>wrong track, but I can't figure it out. We have tested an emulsion which
>seems to work more or less like the Kodak film, in terms of image
>hardening, contrast, speed, etc. We are building a 32" slot coater so we
>can make film for in-house use, and possibly for sale. We have tested
>some extremely brilliant dyes, much better than the Kodak dyes, but we
>haven't done any life testing yet. We plan to start offering digitally
>separated dye transfer prints sometime in 1996, with either Paterson's
>materials, or our own. We find that the dye prints are much more
>beautiful than pigment prints, which to my eye, are quite dull due to the
>limited transmittance of the pigments, which yield a print similar to
>printers inks. We are commited to DT, and want to push it forward. Send
>me E-Mail if you would like any formulas, etc. - Jim Browning
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The only thing I can disagree with is that pigment prints are dull, the
rest I don't know;-)
I have a last e-mail on the subject, but as it was private, I will not give
the address of the sender. For those who might be interested contact me of
list and we will figure something out.
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>I have a large library of dye transfer information that I am willing to
>share with people interested. I have Kodaks complete dye formulas,
>they released these after they quit making the materials. Also have
>other references to making dyes and resources for obtaining the raw dye
>stuff. I have been trying to get in touch with Dr. Patterson but he is
>rather slow in returning phone calls. Last I heard was that he was
>testing a batch of matrix film. (Made by Kilborn Photo Products Inc.
>of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA - I believe) If you can steer me to the
>original inquiry I can give them some more information. Also if you
>are interested in dye transfer drop me a line.
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Guy de Riencourt
Paris, France
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