> > From: "John Celio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/07/26 Sat PM 04:14:31 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Interesting PMA numbers > > > 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.
Er, but the numbers show that there are now ~6_billion_ fewer prints being commercially made per year in the US. I suspect the fall is even more dramatic in the UK. It's been at least five years since I noted the preponderance of "Please print _something_" adverts on UK television. > > > 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. I suspect that it is slightly quicker. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
