Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ken Firestone wrote: > On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Rolfe Tessem wrote: > > Don Dory wrote: > > I would say the biggest problem for a traditional lab is that the > drugstores and Walmarts and Costcos now have the same equipment as the > pro labs do, and it becomes increasingly hard for the pro labs to > justify the higher margins. I'm talking about printers here, not dip and > dunk versus roller processors. > > But hopefully the pro labs won't wipe the floor with your film like > Costco does when they get overwhelmed with customers. Ken, If you read the last line of my post, I said I was talking about printers, not film processors. I agree that film processing at these mass market outlets is problematic. The fact is, the Fuji Frontier is a wonderful printer. Many pro labs have installed them and many Walmarts and drugstores have installed them. If you have a good end-to-end color managed workflow, you can get prints of equal quality from the Walmart Frontier as those from the pro lab. It takes some work, as you have to convince the Walmart employee to enable "no corrections" on the printer, but if you can do that, the results are absolutely equal. My own experience is that if the store has a kiosk, that station sends the files to the printer with no corrections enabled, so it is the best "no brainer" solution. My point is that this is actually a significant development in the photofinishing world and one that is worth taking advantage of. Rolfe - -- Rolfe Tessem | Lucky Duck Productions, Inc. rolfe@ldp.com | 96 Morton Street (212) 463-0029 | New York, Ny 10014 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html