1980s-90s wire photo negative questions
 

Hello, I recently purchased the backlog of 1980s/90s wire photos from a newspaper. I had to take the bad (10s of thousands of lasers) with the good ( plenty of Type I photos from the era and negatives)

There is a decent quantity of negatives for press photos. There are 4 different for each photo ( black, magenta, yellow, and cyan). Do these make good color prints

Can't answer your questions, but negatives, especially ones as you describe, are rare.

What era are the separation negatives from?


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And what size are they?


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80s/very early 90s

The range from small "mug shot" photos to about the size of a photo that would take up the middle of the front page of a sports section.

The color separations are for making the four printing plates needed.

I'm not sure you could get a color photo print from them.
But, it should be possible to scan them in monochrome, change to the right color and overlay them to get a computer print.

The individual ones should be printable photographically, if you can find a lab that would make contact prints.
The black would be the best, but it will only produce a newspaper quality halftone.

Unless they provided full photographic four color negatives so the newspaper could do the halftone screening themselves. Then you could get a passable print from the black one, but it might look a little off.