Fujifilm Epson 11880 GreenBox large format printer at Farnells Photographic

David Farnell has chosen the FUJIFILM Epson Stylus Pro 11880 GreenBox system for Farnell Photographic Laboratory’s new digital print service. Farnell, who has been printing since 1978, chose the 64″ FUJIFILM solution for his Lake District pro lab based on the quality of its prints on FUJIFILM papers.

“It was the quality of work on the new papers that finally convinced me,” Farnell said. He had evaluated 11880 prints on FUJIFILM Fine Art Fibre Baryte paper. “Prior to that I’d been reluctant to offer digital prints because I had concerns about black and white quality, skin tones, and longevity. These are not a problem now.”

The installation of the 64″ FUJIFILM Epson Stylus Pro 11880 GreenBox printer was done by specialists from FUJIFILM Photofinishing UK, who also provided the training and a follow-up post-installation visit, just to make-good. Farnell was reassured to be working with a corporation with a heritage in professional laboratories and fine art photo printing.

Farnell has also been gratified to find the new prints have gone down well with established clients, even traditionalists who are quite conservative. “It gives them something new to offer their customers,” he said, “and they want that.”

“We used to do Lambda prints up to 60″x30 but now we can do much bigger, in-house, with confidence” Farnell said.

His new 64″ FUJIFILM Epson Stylus Pro 11880 GreenBox has enabled him not only to offer digital prints, but also to follow the trend for larger print sizes. “We used to do Lambda prints up to 60″x30″,”Farnell said, “but now we can do much bigger, in-house, with confidence.”

The FUJIFILM Epson Stylus Pro 11880 GreenBox also wins out against traditional kit on costs. “The service contracts on some of our legacy kit had meant we couldn’t justify extra machines to provide redundancy and backup,” Farnell said. “But the cost in down-time and call-out charges would have been unaffordable if something went wrong. The FUJIFILM system doesn’t have those costs, and it means we have another digital unit we can move jobs onto when something else fails.”

For more information on FUJIFILM’s GreenBox large format photo printing solutions, email greenbox@fuji.co.uk or call Peter Hayward, Commercial Manager of FUJIFILM UK Photofinishing, on +44 (0)1234 572 135.