We've been working on getting this marketed for a while now and at last it's all systems go. "Con-Art Photo Re-Active Ink Jet Paper After ten years of development Focal Point Imaging is proud to present Con-Art Photo-Reactive Ink Jet Paper. This multi-use media is back ward compatible with conventional mono chrome and colour darkroom exposure techniques, whilst retaining the convenience of producing the final image on any inkjet printer. This major break through in nano porous, micro molecular, multi-layer, bayer transfer, flexible coating technology by Acme Arte in Germany. Simply expose the paper using a conventional enlarger is a semi darkened room for 20 seconds with the lens fully open. No need to worry about transporting the paper in black bags as the latent image structure has been absorbed into the bayer transfer layer, so you simply load the paper into you inkjet printer and run the head cleaning programme, this causes the head to pick up a embedded micro profile built into the edge of the paper coating. The printer will then print the image in glorious colour or faithful black and white depending on the original source. Con-Art Photo Re-Active Ink Jet Paper can also be used as a conventional Ink Jet media, and because we have built in a multi-layer technology you print the image on the default Gloss surface which if required can be removed to reveal a Lustre surface below, with the added bonus of not needing to reprint the image. So One Paper, multi-use for darkroom or digital this is the one answer"
It's a paper you can print on in the darkroom or on an inkjet printer. You can expose a negative in the traditional manner through an enlarger then take the exposed paper straight to your inkjet printer and print the latent image without even connecting to a computer. You do need to have a printer with a spctrophotometer and a built in head cleaning programme but otherwise it's just one paper for all. Plus, because the image is contained within the substrate it comes with a default lustre surface which you can peel away to reveal a gloss surface underneath.
