In 2000, US consumers made 29.9 billion prints from film, and 500,000 prints from digital sources. In 2007, consumers made 8.9 billion prints from film, and 16.3 prints from digital. 2008 projects to be 5.8 billion film prints, 16.3 digital prints. In 2007, 35% of digital prints were made at home, that number is projected to fall to 31% in 2008.
In other news, it looks like the trend in photolabs is away from wet prints. Fuji's new line of Frontier machines is using inkjet technology. Just in case you were curious. William Robb -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
