Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Don, 4,5000 prints an hour? That's printing over 120 rolls of film an hour? That's even allot for one day. The new 590 only does 1800 per hour. And we all know that's if your human printer is damn good! Noritsu started coming out with digital inkjet printers a few years ago. Real dawgs, print heads always going out of alignment, ink sensor problems, interface was a joke running on Windozs 2000. I'm sure or hope the newer versions are 100% improved. Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" Subject: Re: Re: Re: [Leica] M7, M8, Film, Digital, same lenses > Adam, > The c-41 machines are going into the landfill. The non-digital printers > are > going into the landfill as even the fourth world is digital now. The lower > end digital printers are going into the landfill; the 390 was Fuji's top of > the line machine at roughtly $250,000 five or six years ago. Now you can > buy a reconditioned one for under $40,000. In February they were close to > $50,000 so the depredciation is huge. As to cost, the 390 is hugely > reliable, maintenance costs are really very small as they swallow huge > amounts of paper(roughly 4500 4X6 prints an hour all day) without > complaint. They work off a chemical cartridge that is about $100 which > supplies developer, bleach, and fix; one cartridge will do maybe 10,000 > prints if I remember correctly and I may not be. The real issue is that > they need a goodly number of prints a day to stay properly replinished, > possibly as few as a few hundred. Plus the electricity to keep 120 liters > of chemistry at 38C. > > The smaller labs are going to an ink jet system that delivers prettty good > quality very flexibly. > > Don