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First of all, we're not talking about film here, but RA4 paper. The amount of it still used by snapshot photofinishers of the quickie variety is undeniably
fading quickly. Lots of people absolutely hate the look of automated digi "machine prints", lots of others simply do that kind of thing at home now, and many many more just look at their digi shots on the web period. None of that factors into the square footage volume being used by big laser printers for commercial applications, or equivalent optical enlargement. Nor are those kinds of outfits going to simply discard the major scanner,
printer, and processing investment they put into it, which can easily run a couple million dollars. Those that are throwing in the towel around here are doing it simply due to ordinary retirement constraints. Fuji itself is into all kinds of things. They're huge. But no octopus is going to sacrifice an arm
just because it will still have seven other arms. Large color inkjet prints are obscenely expensive for what you get. But even labs that offer both RA4
and inkjet services still have to balance client preferences and budgets. Just depends. Mid-sized corporations might simply do in-house display prints
to avoid an outside lab completely, while others might be quite cognizant of the much lower cost of RA4 multiples. Again, I'm talking pro stuff here,
not Aunt Maude's snapshots of her vacation to the headquarters of Krispy Kreme donuts.
fading quickly. Lots of people absolutely hate the look of automated digi "machine prints", lots of others simply do that kind of thing at home now, and many many more just look at their digi shots on the web period. None of that factors into the square footage volume being used by big laser printers for commercial applications, or equivalent optical enlargement. Nor are those kinds of outfits going to simply discard the major scanner,
printer, and processing investment they put into it, which can easily run a couple million dollars. Those that are throwing in the towel around here are doing it simply due to ordinary retirement constraints. Fuji itself is into all kinds of things. They're huge. But no octopus is going to sacrifice an arm
just because it will still have seven other arms. Large color inkjet prints are obscenely expensive for what you get. But even labs that offer both RA4
and inkjet services still have to balance client preferences and budgets. Just depends. Mid-sized corporations might simply do in-house display prints
to avoid an outside lab completely, while others might be quite cognizant of the much lower cost of RA4 multiples. Again, I'm talking pro stuff here,
not Aunt Maude's snapshots of her vacation to the headquarters of Krispy Kreme donuts.