Blow Up manipulates, colour corrects and prints photographic images from digital files; negatives/transparencies or traditional prints using breakthrough technology by DURST, and photographic media by industry leaders Kodak and Ilford.

True photographic images are printed in a single piece up to 1260mm wide, with unlimited length, on photographic paper or display film. Larger sizes are available through tiling.

Extraordinary precision is attained by digital enlargement using lasers, while the digital format allows for full manipulation.

Digital files are interpolated and sent to the lasers which then expose the photographic media. This is then conventionally processed in the Kodak chemistry to produce the photographic print.
 

PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTING MEDIA
Paper Gloss or Matte
Duratrans - Opaque
Duraclear - Clear
Duraflex - Polyester Base

 

  Image Permanence In Kodak Print Materials

Kodak can confidently claim that, in typical home display conditions, images made on Kodak Professional Metallic Paper, as with any Kodak Professional photographic paper, will last for up to 70 years before the average consumer will begin to notice a change due to dye fading.

A number of claims are being made about other manufacturers' images withstanding extremely harsh display conditions. Image permanence studies which are carried out at hight intensities and/or temperatures subject the images to conditions which do not resemble what occurs in real life, and are not meaningful. Kodak only carries out image permanence testing strictly in accordance with ANSI standards.

In addition, advances incorporated in Kodak's current generation of materials ensure that any dye fading which does occur over the decades is balanced, so that no colour bias is evident. This neutrality of change is supplemented by resistance to yellowing of the paper base, so that highlights remain white. No other manufacturer can make this claim.

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