Provided courtesy West Coast Imaging, the preferred printing service of Mountain Scenes Photography.

What is a Chromira?
The Chromira is a Digital Enlarger that exposes type C photographic paper with LEDs. The photo paper is then processed in RA-4 chemistry, creating a continuous-tone, true photographic print. The LEDs use the numbers in your digital file to determine how to expose the paper. The Chromira is different from inkjet printers because it exposes photographic paper (no ink is involved), whereas inkjet printers physically lay ink on paper or canvas.

Why we chose the Chromira as our primary output device for Fuji Crystal Archive Paper:
Both the Lightjet and the Chromira expose Fuji Crystal Archive paper, so we’re printing on the same paper we've used since 1997. The main difference between the machines is how they expose paper. The Lightjet uses lasers, the Chromira uses LEDs. In our comparison testing we found that with an accurate profile, both could make prints that we considered to be a match. We decided to go with the Chromira because the prints seemed to consistently have a little more brilliance and a little cleaner color.