I haven't been able to find a lab that has an older machine that gets prints in the old way, i.e. englarging to paper!
95% of lab machines since about 2005 take a digi scan of the neg, then print in a digital manner, i.e. not with photo paper but with inkjet type of papers. For the newest machines they are actually very very good, but often don't go larger than about 8x6" which isn't really enough for most things.
true, there are no more projection/analogue minilabs that I know of... have often been tempted to buy an old one but with no place of my own it didn't seem very sensible!
but false - I believe the standard digital print method is light-based, RA4 on traditional paper, but it is done from a scan and then projected with RGB like a reverse scan. last bit there total supposition! but the availability of Fuji Crystal Archive on rolls would suggest it's used in minilabs. I guess there is a slight variation to do with the colours between the stuff intended for digital minilab and the stuff intended for enlarger/darkroom, but I'm sure they're both useable the other way around.
true, there are no more projection/analogue minilabs that I know of... have often been tempted to buy an old one but with no place of my own it didn't seem very sensible!
but false - I believe the standard digital print method is light-based, RA4 on traditional paper, but it is done from a scan and then projected with RGB like a reverse scan. last bit there total supposition! but the availability of Fuji Crystal Archive on rolls would suggest it's used in minilabs. I guess there is a slight variation to do with the colours between the stuff intended for digital minilab and the stuff intended for enlarger/darkroom, but I'm sure they're both useable the other way around.