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This is certainly no big story, just a sad (re-)confirmation for me and anyone else who ever printed on Agfa 111 or 118 fiber paper. I went to Agfa’s web site about a month ago and found the following:

You can’t buy the film anymore you’re used to?

Films, photo paper and chemistry come and go. Quite problematic when they go and you still need some…

Agfa Aerial reaches a hand and wants to look into its wide halftone product range whether some suitable substitution film can be identified.
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Film technology is alive and kicking!

So yes, I realize it’s aerial halftone film… but I get the impression that they either added that after I saw it or I was just so floored by the idea that they might just have paper for me to use. So I wrote them, and asked about both of those papers. Today they responded:

Dear Mr. Pickering
Sorry to say Agfa has discontinued all fiber based papers. The only remaining b/w photo paper from Agfa is called Rapitone M2 which is a multicontrast non fiber paper. It is presently used in the aerial mapping industry for conventional b/w imaging. You can review the specifications at our web site www.agfa.com, Materials, aerial photography. Go to data sheets for Rapitone.
If you must continue to use fiber based papers, there still remains a good selection on the market. Web sites of B&H Photo and Freestyle have a wide selection. Oriental Seagull offers fiber based in both mullticontrast and graded papers.
I hope this will help your search.
Regards,

John *******
Agfa Corporation
100 Challenger Road
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660

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