Agfachrome CU 410
Description
“Between 1970 and 1976, Agfa-Gevaert produced its own silver dye-bleach printing material on a white-pigmented acetate base called Agfachrome CU 410.28 Only available to a few photofinishers in Germany, it was used to print amateurs’ transparencies (Fig. 6.10). Agfachrome CU 410 was introduced at the 1970 Photokina. The exhibit included a display of 8 x 10 in. enlargements, along with an announcement of its availability for machine processing (Lipton 2001). The processing sequence included a developer, a stop bath, a wash hardener, wash, dye-bleach, wash, bleach-fix, wash, and stabilizer, with a total processing time of fifty minutes (Coote 1972:232). Agfa never advertised or marketed the product, and customers probably never suspected they were receiving silver dye-bleach prints. Because they were more costly to manufacture and process, silver dye-bleach printing materials and chemistry were eventually abandoned by Agfa in favor of dye coupling ones.
Notes
28 Company formed by the merging of Agfa (Germany) and Gevaert (Belgium) in 1964 (Walworth and Mervis 1989: 216).”
(Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, on p. 219.)
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Source: Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 218.
Secondary Sources
Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, on pp. 218–219. View Quote
