"The system develops conventional film without chemicals"
Really?
jez
"Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx>@Zuiko.sls.bc.ca on 14-05-2003 11:33:16 AM
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Subject: [OM] Interesting news from Kodak
This from the yesterday's New York Times suggests that there is hope yet
for
film (although a recent UK magazine review of the product suggested that
image quality has some way to go before it matches the 'real' stuff). ASF
is also the originator of Digital ICE, GEM and ROC.
Piers
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Page 4, Column 1
c. 2003 New York Times Company
Eastman Kodak said it had agreed to buy the 's rapid-film-processing
technology of Applied Science Fiction Inc. to increase sales at photo
kiosks. The price was not disclosed. The system develops conventional film
without chemicals, converts photos into digital files, prints pictures and
stores them on a compact disc in minutes, Kodak said. Kodak is trying to
encourage photo printing because photographic paper is one of its more
profitable products, and because sales of regular film are declining as
consumers shift to digital cameras, which do not use it. The company has
hired executives experienced in digital imaging, including Antonio Perez,
formerly of the Hewlett-Packard Company, as chief operating officer. Kodak,
based in Rochester, has more than 40,000 kiosks, or free-standing
photo-developing machines, worldwide.
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