Re: Another one bites the dust

On 12/30/2007 9:16 PM ____ spake thus:

> In article <476d6b62$0$29848$822641b3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  David Nebenzahl <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> On 12/22/2007 8:53 AM jjs spake thus:
>> 
>>> "David Nebenzahl" <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>>> news:476c1dfc$0$29897$822641b3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 >>>
>>>> Well, while fewer custom printers may or may not be a good thing, I
can 
>>>> definitely say that *no* custom printers (in this case, no custom
*color* 
>>>> printers in a very large part, if not all, of the San Francisco Bay
Area) 
>>>> is a very bad thing.
>>> 
>>> Wasn't there a Gamma photo in the BA?
>> 
>> Apparently still is (http://www.gammasf.com),
but they only do b&w. 
>> (Wet, though.) There may also still be at least one in Oakland, judging

>> from the prints still hanging in his window.
>> 
>> I don't know for sure that there aren't *any* wet color labs
hereabouts, 
>> but I know of none.
> 
> Labs have always been a losing proposition. Coupled with things like 
> photographers with open accounts that don't pay its a bad business to be

> in. Now with high end inkjets that graphics departments can do in house 
> imaging why spend the big bucks at the lab for just a single image when 
> yo can invest a few 1,000 and do you own trade show displays.

Yeah, yeah, we all know too well why there aren't any wet color labs any 
more. What would be much more interesting would be to hear about the one 
or two still in business somewhere: people who aren't only interested in 
the economic aspects of the trade.