Ilford Colour Print
Description
“In November 1953 Ilford Limited of London launched a mail-order service to supply color prints from 35mm transparencies using Ilford Colour Print, a silver dye-bleach printing material on white-pigmented cellulose triacetate support (Fig. 6.6). Within a year, Ilford was producing hundreds of thousands of prints annually and had devised printers capable of making 1,200 exposures an hour (Coote 1965). Prints were surrounded with a 3⁄16 in. white border obtained by means of a separate fogging exposure subsequent to the image-forming exposure (Brewer 1959) (Fig. 6.7). Initially, only one size of print (3 13⁄16 × 5 1⁄2 in.) was offered to customers, with a minimum order of four prints from one or more transparencies (Ilford 1956). In 1957 additional service provided 5 1⁄2 × 8 1⁄4 in. enlargements. In 1960 the material was renamed Ilfachrome, then Ilfochrome in 1962.22 It remained available until 1963, when Ilford announced it was replacing the silver dye-bleach paper Ilfochrome with Ilfocolor, a cheaper dye coupler printing paper (Fisher 2010).”
(Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, on pp. 214–216.)
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Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, p. 215.
Secondary Sources
Pénichon, Sylvie (2013): Twentieth Century Colour Photographs. The Complete Guide to Processes, Identification & Preservation. London, Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson, on pp. 214–216. View Quote
