Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/11

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Subject: [Leica] Was Kodak shuts Canadian plant now single weight
From: wharting at verizon.net (bill harting)
Date: Sat Dec 11 18:07:30 2004
References: <008c01c4ded7$fd8519f0$6401a8c0@ccapr.com>

I'm panicking too, because I can't find any of my beloved single-weight 
Polymax fiber -- I guess Kodak had stopped making it.

bill h


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 11:47 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: Kodak shuts Canadian plant


> The end is neigh. The other evening my daughter was saying she's
> panicked that she'll be out of a job in a couple months. She's a black
> and white printer for a small place in Concord, MA that does exhibition
> and book printing for all sorts of big name people, and prints for the
> NY Times for the collection prints it sells. They've always used Ilford
> paper and can no longer get it, and she says they're having trouble
> getting Agfa because people are buying it up in a panic. She's concerned
> that when they have to tell clients that certain papers aren't
> available, the reaction may be 'to hell with it, why stick with silver
> any more.'
>
> I know that what I'm hearing is a 26-year-old's over-reaction, but it is
> telling.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [Leica] OT: Kodak shuts Canadian plant
>
>
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> NStory/Business/
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Replies: Reply from Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway) ([Leica] Was Kodak shuts Canadian plant now single weight)
In reply to: Message from bdcolen at earthlink.net (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] OT: Kodak shuts Canadian plant)