Sorry, thought I was replying to Michael Batchelor's earlier post. It was meant for him.
The latter product was called Ektaflex "C" and Ektaflex "R" paper, and was terminated by the Polaroid lawsuit.
So that is why those little 'PMT' like machines disappeared so quickly.
I was given a box of receiver paper for Ektaflex earlier this year. I tried using it in a great qualtiy Olympus dye sub printer I was also given, and it did not work. Oly proprietary paper is now rare as hell, so both the Ektaflex paper and the printer went to the recycling depot in the same trip.
Think about it. With accelerating demand due to silver being incorporated in many industrial processes to manufacture all of the electronic toys we are so fond of, how long do you all think it'll take until all of the silver reserves around the world will simply be depleted?
According to This USGS report, industrial use of silver is declining, not accelerating. Also, current mine production would use up all known reserves in about twenty years or so, but of course "known reserves" can be subject to change. Most of the growth in silver "consumption" in the past few years has been hoarding by ETFs.
Help me on this:
The wording I find vague, but the numbers not so. Sounds like the overall use of silver is increasing.
Oh, and my hobby is not some industrial exploit.
For you, maybe not, but for the producers and manufacturers of the material, it is. Also, "photographic use" in these kinds of statistics includes all commercial, industrial, and medical uses of any kind of photographic material, not just consumer stuff.
My point was that the author suggested it is only used in industrial applications.
Maybe it's coming back down out of the stratosphere. One can only hope a bunch of speculators are getting burned on the way down.
http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424052970203390704576305213967197384.html?mod=BOL_hpp_latestticker
Hopefully you're right. There was a previous attempt several decades ago to corner the market in silver, but eventually the Hunt brothers who were responsible got their fingers badly burnt. History has a habit of repeating itself, but some people never learn.
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