No question is too silly, so: Are they cut to the exact dimensions you’d expect from the factory?
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The question isn’t silly at all. If only because colour papers have a different standardisation to black-and-white papers.
For black-and-white, for example, the standard is the international postcard at 10.5 x 14.8 cm, whereas colour papers are cut to an inch format (10.2 x 15.2 cm).
Colour paper rolls are therefore 10.2 cm wide, and a roll cut is logically 10.2 cm wide (it cannot be spliced).
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As for the Kodak paper, we can guarantee dimensional accuracy as we have cut it ourselves. In future, custom formats will also be available.
However, we are switching to Fuji Crystal Archive, as Kodak no longer wishes to supply large rolls and the minilab roll cut is too labour-intensive for us. We are much faster when we cut down whole master rolls, and we are accurate to within 1/10 mm.
The paper currently offered as Fuji is still sourced from a third party, and I don’t know who cuts it. There is one supplier who isn’t traditionally very precise with the formats, as his machine is long past its prime and tends to allow for a few millimetres more or less. However, I don’t know if he cut this particular paper.
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Best regards,
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Mirko
