Printing options for exhibition photos

[EcoLeica]

Hi all, I have just been awarded a small grant to hold my first exhibition early next year and have been wondering what my options are for prints. I havent really had any of my properly printed over the years so this is a new area for me. Now apparently inkjet prints have come along in leads and bonds over the past couple of years so that is one option but what about prints done by the fujifrontier printers? If i am mistaken they are at least a chemical process are they not? I have have just got some 4x6s back from the shop (printed on crystal archive) and they look wonderful but are they good enough for larger prints?

Cheers
Steve

 

[payasam]

You could have a few 8" x 10" prints made as a test. They will be a good indication of quality.

 

[Freakscene]

In what form are the originals? Fuji Frontier machines are a scanner-based printer that print on RA4 paper (the same paper that your C41 negatives are printed on). If the operator is competent they are a good chocie for colour neg and digital originals, but the RA4 paper lacks the spectral response to be really great if your originals are conventional B&Ws (not chromogenic B&W).

Match the output to the originals and get the work done by the best people you can.

Marty