chris writes: > A silverless process has been developed where the blue absorber is split by > light and immediately combines with a white compound to form a yellow dye > and similarly for the other colours. All that needs doing then is to fix > the film and that can be done by making the colour coupling compound part if > the plastic layer and washing the absorbers out of the film with solvents. Hi Chris. The silverless process you describe sounds like the old Agfa Copycolor process, the one where a sheet of the Agfa paper was exposed and then passed through a 'stabilizing' bath to produce a print. I recall it being heralded in it's time as a breakthrough and although expensive many photography magazines wrote up that they foresaw it becoming a part of home darkrooms of the future. Of course the initial high price didn't fall fast enough for consumers and the pre-press industry and then there was the promise of digital looming in the future. I believe Kodak also tried releasing their brand of the technology too. I have a couple of prints lying around somewhere made with that stuff, they're still looking pretty good after all this time but they are a little flat - I recall this being one complaint that the customers always had of this product. karl
