Mark Amies Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Taking advantage of the fact that Minilabhelp is a worldwide website, I thought I would put this one to you all , in all the four corners of the globe. How is things generally in terms of photo retail right now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABOLINK Posted October 11, 2011 Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Hi, from Spain! As industrial photolab,we work for retailers in 60 km. around; in our area lots of them simply survive ( like us, by the way!). Most of retailers have to go out to cover social events ( weddings and so on...) because they can´t earn enough money waiting people come into their shops. Some of them have bought expensive inkjet machines for printing a small amount of prints; they have buy envelopes, ink cartridges, paper, pay the bank, and spent their time printing in that way; they prefer to do that, instead of sending their files to us for printing in photo paper ( chemical, of course) in a professional way. Can´t understand that. In this athmosphere, although Kodak have increased prices, we can´t transfer increase to our clients. I don´t know that´s happening in other areas. Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Amies Posted October 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 Thanks Labolink, very interesting!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Amies Posted October 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 By the way , Labolink, when you go out to cover socail events , do you take a dye sublimation photo printer to print on site? Event Photography is a big thing here in the UK and the USA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABOLINK Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Hi, again; In our area, social events have decreased dramatically; less weddings, and less prints per wedding; only few clients order digital albums. 10 years ago this bussines was very important, and 20 years ago, most important; 30 years ago was a good bussines. I suspect that only a few clients make prints "in situ" with dye sublimation printer, because most of the guests use their own digital cameras. May be depend of geographical areas. You have realize that our country is getting most and most poor every year. We have about 5000000 of unemployeds, and increasing... Regards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Amies Posted October 13, 2011 Author Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 Of course, yes I realise things are get tough in Spain. You know that Mitsubishi have their European head office in your country? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LABOLINK Posted October 17, 2011 Report Share Posted October 17, 2011 No, I dont´t know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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