> 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.
This last part does not surprise me. Consumers are hopefully waking up to the cost-vs-convenience factor of printing at home, plus the potential technical and quality issues that come with trying to be your own photofinisher. For the sake of photolabs everywhere, I hope the print-at-home number continues to drop. > 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. I wonder if that's because they could make more money selling ink rather than chemicals. Personally, I hope labs stay with chemical systems. John -- http://www.neovenator.com http://www.cafepress.com/neovenatorphoto -- 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.
