Digital BW, The Print

On 05-03-14 07:33, Richard Smallfield wrote:
> If Ilford Imaging is not going to rise again, I wonder if Harman have been
> considering taking back their Ilford name and producing some of the Swiss
> Ilford papers in their English factory?
>
> Richard
>

The brand name Ilford was already split up between the belly up Ilford 
Imaging and Harman Technology. The last uses the brand name Ilford for 
the photographic films, plates etc it still manufactures in the original 
Ilford plant in the UK. My guess is that there is still a contract that 
assures the rights of using the Ilford brand name for inkjet products to 
the Swiss Ilford-Imaging company. The financial curators will try to get 
that brand name sold for good money to whatever company that looks for 
an illustrious brand name to sell its inkjet media. Could be anything 
from a Russian inkjet media manufacturer to a small Brazilian 
distributor of rebranded inkjet media. Kodak wide  inkjet media today is 
distributed by BMG with the label Kodak but RC qualities are Felix 
Schoeller products and the art papers show Innova specs. It shared a 
booth at the last Photokina with InnovaArt.

What Harman produces where in inkjet media is also an open question. 
Today it is "Harman by Hahnem\ufffdhle" and the base and coating could be 
produced anywhere. Felix Schoeller, InnovaArt, Sihl?  I doubt the base 
is produced by HM in Dassel, the capacity and production methods there 
do not suit the Harman paper category. And it has to be seen whether the 
coating is still done by Harman. HM uses Sihl for the coatings of the 
paper bases it produces. Other papers are bought from big suppliers like 
Felix Schoeller. It is hard to get the facts about this, if Harman still 
coats the paper base it orders from paper mills then it may have made a 
deal with Hahnem\ufffdhle to make its brand name better known / more 
illustrious or it uses the HM distribution facilities etc.

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Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

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January 2014, 600+ inkjet media white spectral plots.

On 05-03-14 11:01, Ernst Dinkla wrote:

> The brand name Ilford was already split up between the belly up Ilford
> Imaging and Harman Technology. The last uses the brand name Ilford for
> the photographic films, plates etc it still manufactures in the original
> Ilford plant in the UK. My guess is that there is still a contract that
> assures the rights of using the Ilford brand name for inkjet products to
> the Swiss Ilford-Imaging company. The financial curators will try to get
> that brand name sold for good money to whatever company that looks for
> an illustrious brand name to sell its inkjet media. Could be anything
> from a Russian inkjet media manufacturer to a small Brazilian
> distributor of rebranded inkjet media. Kodak wide  inkjet media today is
> distributed by BMG with the label Kodak but RC qualities are Felix
> Schoeller products and the art papers show Innova specs. It shared a
> booth at the last Photokina with InnovaArt.


It did not take long:
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/photo-news/540601/ilford-galerie-photo-paper-set-for-1-3m-comeback


-- 
Met vriendelijke groet, Ernst

http://www.pigment-print.com/spectralplots/spectrumviz_1.htm
January 2014, 600+ inkjet media white spectral plots.