Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/10/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]AZO has been gone for like 10++ years. Michael Smith bought up the remainders, and uses it ( exclusively) to produce his contact prints for sale. It is said he had refrigerators full of the stuff. He was selling some as well, but prices were pretty high. Nonetheless, he was the only supply of this fine contact paper. He went on a mission to find or make a replacement. He hitched up with some company ( name never disclosed as far as I know) to retool the paper. I guess it took him over 5 years to get something he was happy with. He now sells that paper under the Lodima name..... ( Amidol backwards) ...... and it is quite pricey. The fact that Freestyle is offering Formalux paper is encouraging..... it may be the same paper or it may be one of the papers that Michael rejected for quality. Anyway,, for a B+W paper in today's market, it is amazing that something new was added to the printers' toolkit. Frank Filippone Red735i at earthlink.net