Champion photochemistry website?

[Tom Kershaw]

I've just been trying to look for the Champion photochemistry website for information / pdf datasheets about their product range. However, https://www.championphotochemistry.com no longer seems to go anywhere.

The last capture from the WaybackMachine was taken 9th August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220809162914/http://championphotochemistry.com/

 

[pentaxuser]

Tom, I suspect that there is no such site now and that Champion now only makes for large companies or serves large retailers Individual customer like us are not catered for

pentaxuser

 

[Tom Kershaw]

Tom, I suspect that there is no such site now and that Champion now only makes for large companies or serves large retailers Individual customer like us are not catered for

It seems odd that a major manufacturer doesn't maintain a website.

 

[pentaxuser]

It seems odd that a major manufacturer doesn't maintain a website.

All I can think of is that the effort of such maintenance outweighs any commercial benefit that it would produce. For companies the cost to benefit result has to be the "bottom line", hasn't it

pentaxuser

 

[koraks]

It seems odd that a major manufacturer doesn't maintain a website.

They're pretty much decimated from what they were a few years ago, I understand. Based in Malaysia, likely working with a skeleton crew and focusing solely on b2b, I can see how they pick their priorities carefully.

 

[MattKing]

If you don't want to have anything to do with sales to small end users, you intentionally avoid having a website.
There is an entire B2B ecosystem out there!

 

[Tom Kershaw]

If you don't want to have anything to do with sales to small end users, you intentionally avoid having a website.
There is an entire B2B ecosystem out there!

The linked data doesn't appear to have been archived but the following link would seem to indicate that Champion were at one time at least, producing online documentation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210506220705/http://championphotochemistry.com/documents.php?moduleName=_documentLibrary&action=dspFolders&catalogID=1

 

[halfaman]

The linked data doesn't appear to have been archived but the following link would seem to indicate that Champion were at one time at least, producing online documentation.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210506220705/http://championphotochemistry.com/documents.php?moduleName=_documentLibrary&action=dspFolders&catalogID=1

For sure, I downloaded documentantion from that site in the past but I didn't keep it.

 

[Tom Kershaw]

For sure, I downloaded documentantion from that site in the past but I didn't keep it.

Even Bellini, who seem to be a company of the moment, don't have a fully comprehensive site listing their whole range, although there is some documentation (and the occasional typo). https://www.bellinifoto.it/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/4150CD.pdf - not sure 0ml of part C is intentional...

 

[MattKing]

There may very well be a secure website that is not easily found using search engines that is accessible for high volume commercial customers.
The so-called "dark web", which has as much non-nefarious, confidential stuff in it as the stuff referenced in fiction.

 

[koraks]

The so-called "dark web"

While I see your point, this is not a likely place for a b2b website.
To be frank, I think they simply have no website, and instead rely for their market connections on one or a handful of distributors who manage the market channels.

 

[MattKing]

While I see your point, this is not a likely place for a b2b website.

I understand, for instance, that it is not unusual for financial institutions to have sites designed for technical internal communications that are essentially invisible to the outside world.
It is that sort of technical communication use that such sites would be used for - not marketing.

 

[Ian Grant]

I was on a Champion website fairly recently, not the one linked to on the Internet Archive. Essentially Champion is still basically May & Baker, and their website said that. May & Baker synthesised developing agents including colour, and made high end colour chemistry as far back as the 1950s.

Large companies try to avoid costly shipping of water, so liquid photo-chemistry is typically made/mixed in various more localised sites close to their market. Sp a Malaysian site has gone ?

So lets wait and see, as there seems to be no supply issue with their B&W products.

Ian

 

[Tom Kershaw]

I was on a Champion website fairly recently, not the one linked to on the Internet Archive.

do you have a link?

 

[BobUK]

Plus One Techie in the UK have some Champion products.

Your Search Results | Plus One Techie

Plus One Techie | Search our range of products

www.plusonetechie.co.uk

The drop down boxes are not very good when looking for things on their site. Better off using the search function.
Bulk Fomapan 100 was quite reasonably priced.
The chemistry I looked at had links to data sheets, so maybe the thing you are looking for may be here on this site.
They may even be willing to send a link to Champion themselves.
I have never used the firm myself so cannot vouch for the service provided.

Good luck hunting.

 

[TunkuFawzy]

Hi all,

A couple of weeks ago, somebody gave me a couple of bottles of SUPROL and the fixer. I have the attached data sheets, which I hope will be useful for you. I can try and find out a bit more about Champion as I am based in Malaysia.
The chap who gave the chemicals is in touch with Champion directly . I hope the pdf uploads work.

I've just been trying to look for the Champion photochemistry website for information / pdf datasheets about their product range. However, https://www.championphotochemistry.com no longer seems to go anywhere.

The last capture from the WaybackMachine was taken 9th August 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220809162914/http://championphotochemistry.com/

 

[arturo_rs]

Found this:

Home :: The Photochemical Specialists

Digital Inks, Inkjet, Professional, Imaging products, market leaders, inkjet specialists, Noristu Ink, Fuji Cartridges, HP ink cartridges

www.championdigitalinks.com

 

[arturo_rs]

And this page:

Photochemistry Product Support

www.championdigitalinks.com

The section "Print" is the first one.

 

[koraks]

Cool find, thanks for posting that @arturo_rs!

 

[Chuck_P]

Good grief, not familiar with the acronym B2B...........what is a B2B company? Back to basics?......idk.

 

[koraks]

Good grief, not familiar with the acronym B2B...........what is a B2B company? Back to basics?......idk.

B2B stands for "business to business." I.e. they sell (in principle) only to business clients and are (evidently) not organized to dispense products or information to the general public.

 

[Chuck_P]

B2B stands for "business to business." I.e. they sell (in principle) only to business clients and are (evidently) not organized to dispense products or information to the general public.

Thank you for that............

 

[MattKing]

As I read the info on that site, the Photo Chemistry Support is merely documentation for products that Champion no longer offer.
The only products that they currently offer are inks.