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Black
& White and Colour hand printing is an art form some are beginning
to re-discover. The majority of modern labs don't offer or have the
knowledge to produce this. In the old days, photographic labs used to be staffed by chemical nerds smelling of noxious products; practising the arts of technical alchemy in darkened rooms emerging only occasionally to hand over prints that had taken days to produce and which cost a fortune.
A remnant of these survived and found their way to CC, where they
continue the legacy of subtractive printing on some of the last
remaining DeVere colour enlargers. Processing aside, not a great deal is done these days without a computer. Hand printing is the dying art of darkroom colour printing. Like cine film, hand printing has a unique quality which can add flavour to an image.
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Gone are the smelly darkrooms
and the long waits for prints. Prints can now be produced in hours,
even minutes if necessary, on shiny new machines.