POP (Printing out paper)

[Shan Ren]

I am new here and trying my way around the interface. Have tried search without luck. Does anyone here know the status of POP manufacture? I have heard rumours about it being discontinued as the factory was bought and closed. Any one know?

[Kerik]

Ka-put. RIP.

[Ian Grant]

Ilford can't make the Centennial POP paper that was formerly made by Kentmere. The reasons are in a thread last week concerning Kentmere products.

You can make your own, look on the Unblinkingeye website. There are quite a number of POP formulae around, the problem is if you want to coat a baryta paper support rather than a water-colour paper.

Ian

[Anton Lukoszevieze]

Make salt prints! Cheap and easy. You can wax them too for glossy detail.

[Trevor Crone]

Print on Lodima Fine Art silver chloride contact paper and selenium tone. This paper is capable of wonderful tonality.

Trevor.

[Bob F.]

Originally Posted by Shan Ren

I am new here and trying my way around the interface. Have tried search without luck. Does anyone here know the status of POP manufacture? I have heard rumours about it being discontinued as the factory was bought and closed. Any one know?

Official press release and resultant discussions here: http://www.apug.org/forums/forum172/...te-harman.html

[Ian Grant]

Originally Posted by Trevor Crone

Print on Lodima Fine Art silver chloride contact paper and selenium tone. This paper is capable of wonderful tonality.
Trevor.

Lodima Fine Art is very different to Printing out paper and so wouldn't be a substitute, POP's are self masking during exposure unlike most other papers.

Ian

[Trevor Crone]

Originally Posted by Ian Grant

Lodima Fine Art is very different to Printing out paper and so wouldn't be a substitute, POP's are self masking during exposure unlike most other papers.

Ian

I know that Ian for I've printed on both and I'm not saying its an absolute substitute; in fact I still have 25 sheets of POP left Lodima selenium toned has a very similar look to POP when gold toned and Lodima has a wonderful tonal scale particularly when developed in amidol, again in my opinion equal to POP's self-masking properties. Seeing is believing.

[Photo Engineer]

Most POP papers are considered to have limited lifetime and the formulas I have fit into that category. Anyone have any comments on the longevity of POP raw stock?

Thanks.

PE

[Trevor Crone]

Originally Posted by Photo Engineer

Most POP papers are considered to have limited lifetime and the formulas I have fit into that category. Anyone have any comments on the longevity of POP raw stock?

Thanks.

PE

I don't know about raw stock, but my stock of paper is about four years old which I keep refrigerated and just take out what I need. It still looks good, unlike stuff I've simply stored at room temp. (21C).

Trevor.