Is kodak discontinued endura metallic?

[czygeorge]

Just saw this article(p1)
Is this TRUE and they will discontinue this paper forever?I really like it and only have few meters left

 

[pentaxuser]

I Don't know, Who made the announcement that Kodak has announced it?

pentaxuser

 

[koraks]

Does Kodak have much to do with this anyway? They divested their RA4 paper manufacturing to Sinopromise, who can now market the product under the Kodak brand. What their manufacturing situation is at the moment, I don't know. Supply was severely interrupted during the pandemic, Sinopromise was apparently (probably still is) in much financial difficulty, but I've heard some reports of allegedly fresh Endura hitting the market over the past few months. For me, the main question at this moment is more "will there be any more Endura at all" than about very specific products within that broader product line.

 

[cramej]

I received the announcement from Bay Photo.

 

[xkaes]

I love that paper too, but I thought it was discontinued a long time ago.

 

[mshchem]

To Koraks point. Is SinoPromise making any Kodak Endura paper?

 

[koraks]

I really don't know. Apart from some reports of one or two users also on here who say they've received fresh Endura paper in the past few months, they should be producing it. But I'm still skeptical as it doesn't seem to be commonly stocked. I was also talking to an ex-Fuji employee the other day and he kind of sniggered when the conversation came to SinoPromise. (Btw, he did assert that Fuji has no intentions of ceasing RA4 production in the short term as it's currently just far too interesting for them as a de-facto monopoly, although R&D investments really are in other lines of business. Nothing new here, but it confirms what I guessed already.)