First introduced in the 1940s, chromogenic printing revolutionized color photography. Early C-prints were made with unstable dyes that bled into each other or faded over time, but those problems were eventually corrected. By the time digital C-prints took over the industry in the 1990s, the chromogenic process was so refined that it had even become the standard in the fine art world.
In History of the C Print Part 1, we explained how c-prints were first developed and outlined their early history. Now, we re going to discuss the history of c-prints after 1955.
