10 Film processing management and colour printing

This chapter describes the current ways of film and paper processing, monochrome and colour, and methods of colour printing. It starts with the main processes and the different kinds of equipment designed to get chemicals to act on film or paper. The chapter also discusses the ways you can monitor the processes for quality control and the treatment/ discharge of solutions containing silver by-products.

It continues with methods of colour printing assuming that you already have experience with black and white printing but are approaching practical colour printing on silver halide material for the first time. This section starts with an overview of equipment used for colour printing and continues ...

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