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Subject: [Leica] OT, sort of: Noritsu Minilab
From: s.dimitrov at charter.net (Slobodan Dimitrov)
Date: Mon Jun 18 15:33:19 2007
References: <C9E84085-74FC-4AEC-A5E7-A1C1E6567698@mac.com> <4676BFFA.19632.E5DBC@leica.rcmckee.com>

Thank you, for telling it like it is!

Slobodan Dimitrov




On Jun 18, 2007, at 3:25 PM, R. Clayton McKee wrote:

> Quoth the Kenneth Frazier :
>
>> Listers,
>>
>> I have an opportunity to buy a Noritsu minilab, in full working
>> order, and set it up in the basement of my new church.
>>
>> The equipment is in excellent condition, but the photo shop is
>> closing.  I've had a dozen rolls of 120 run through it and the
>> results are top notch.
>
> If this ain't a joke, then you're officially out of your mind, padre.
>
> That machine, new, probably cost the buyer somewhere between 20 and
> 50 grand.  If they're willing to let you have it more or less for the
> cost of disconnecting it and hauling it away, that should tell you
> something.
>
> I like Noritsu machines, I ran one for several years, and the
> operating costs are going to eat you alive several times over.
> You'll be needing to run 30-50 rolls a day, minimum, every day, to
> keep the chemistry stable so you have predictable results, and then
> you'll have water and electric bills out the wazoo, plus the EPA
> regulation chemistry and effluent disposal, plus the cost of the
> chemistry and the paper and the maintenance time and service and
> parts, and then there's learning to make it work right and stay in
> calibration, and....
>
> Are you getting the picture here?
>
> There's a reason the freestanding one hour photo place is kaput, and
> the maintenance and operating costs are a HUGE part of that reason.
>
> No Flippin' Way.
> --
>
>
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Replies: Reply from kennybod at mac.com (Kenneth Frazier) ([Leica] OT, sort of: Noritsu Minilab)
In reply to: Message from kennybod at mac.com (Kenneth Frazier) ([Leica] OT, sort of: Noritsu Minilab)
Message from leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee) ([Leica] OT, sort of: Noritsu Minilab)