[pure-silver] Re: Kodak Discontinuing All Black and White Paper

Hello Philippe,

Both Lauzeau and Photo Service in Montreal still stock Kodak paper in very 
limited quantities, sizes, and types. By the way, what B&W only photo club 
to you belong to in Montreal? I've been looking for a while without any 
success.

Louie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Philippe Gauthier" <pgauth@xxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 9:36 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Kodak Discontinuing All Black and White Paper


> At 06:18 15-06-05 -0700, you wrote:
>
>>    I just got word from my contact at Kodak that they will be
> discontinuing all black and white paper. The official announcement will be
> made later today.=20
>>    Kodak will continue making B&W film and chemicals.=20
>>    The reason boils down to paper no longer being a profitable market.=20
>
> The truth is that they just lost the market to Ilford and Agfa, I think. I
> noticed last week that the last store in Montr=E9al who used to carry the
> Kodak line of paper no longer does. Meanwhile, Ilford and to a lesser
> extent, Agfa papers, are easily found in the few good photo stores left.
> BTW, I belong to a B&W only photo club and I know no one who uses/used
> Kodak paper. Maybe they are/were good, maybe not, but they certainly
> completely failed to market them in the last 10 years here in Canada.
>
> No one here carries the more exotic brands - Forte, Bergger, Luminos... -
> unfortunately and it seems that the local stores cannot get them even in
> special order.=20
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