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To: LLCF who wrote (99429)	5/3/2001 5:34:45 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) of 436258

Most people are like you, they won't do the prints themselves. Because your lab doesn't offer digital prints now doesn't mean they won't. You won't be able to tell the difference from the photo prints and the digital output from a commercial lab. How do I know this? I run a lab and I do both, I've been having to point out the difference for the last two years to people because they can't tell. I only deal with professionals and if they can't tell the diff nobody can. I'm not talking about the level output you get from your home printer. People could always make their own photographic prints, but they don't. I've set people up with a hundred dollar enlarger and fifty bucks worth of accessories to make color prints in their basement.....but obviously most won't go to the trouble, not when they can get better quality from the supermarket at $.60 a pop. You will obviously be one of the people who will wait for your supermarket lab to offer digital output, they already do. Any lab that offers Kodak finishing already does, but you obviously aren't aware of that. Any lab, including the ones down the street from you, if it offers Kodak processing. I go to the big trade shows in NYC every year to see what the vendors are offering to commercial labs like mine. For the last four years if you wanted to buy conventional photo finishing equipment rather than digital you had to really search hard to find a vendor that is showing it or even selling it. Remember the first time you walked in a music store and noticed that all the records were gone? This is what it's like for me to go to these shows. Don't shoot the messenger, just telling you what it's like from the lab side of the equation. My fellow commercial lab owners are in a state of denial as well. They will pooh pooh it right up to the moment when they realize that their best year was five years back. Most will simply go out of business rather than adjust.

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