Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Chris, It is standard in the industry to quote maximum throughput. This means that if I sent an order from the PIC for 4500 prints the 390 would have them all out within an hour. The best I ever saw in production was 46 rolls of 24 double prints dry to dry in an hour but the tech was really hustling to get it done and she had a C-41 that would process in just over seven minutes. Using the bulk loader she sent twenty rolls through at a time and she did use the auto-print function so start a roll, twin check a roll, package a roll, start a roll.... Don don.dory@gmail.com On 11/29/06, Christopher Williams <leicachris@worldnet.att.net> wrote: > > Hey Don, 4,5000 prints an hour? That's printing over 120 rolls of film an > hour? That's even allot for one day. The new 590 only does > 1800 per hour. And we all know that's if your human printer is damn good! > > Noritsu started coming out with digital inkjet printers a few years ago. > Real dawgs, print heads always going out of alignment, ink > sensor problems, interface was a joke running on Windozs 2000. I'm sure or > hope the newer versions are 100% improved. > > Chris > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Don Dory" > Subject: Re: Re: Re: [Leica] M7, M8, Film, Digital, same lenses > > > > Adam, > > The c-41 machines are going into the landfill. The non-digital printers > are > > going into the landfill as even the fourth world is digital now. The > lower > > end digital printers are going into the landfill; the 390 was Fuji's top > of > > the line machine at roughtly $250,000 five or six years ago. Now you > can > > buy a reconditioned one for under $40,000. In February they were close > to > > $50,000 so the depredciation is huge. As to cost, the 390 is hugely > > reliable, maintenance costs are really very small as they swallow huge > > amounts of paper(roughly 4500 4X6 prints an hour all day) without > > complaint. They work off a chemical cartridge that is about $100 which > > supplies developer, bleach, and fix; one cartridge will do maybe 10,000 > > prints if I remember correctly and I may not be. The real issue is that > > they need a goodly number of prints a day to stay properly replinished, > > possibly as few as a few hundred. Plus the electricity to keep 120 > liters > > of chemistry at 38C. > > > > The smaller labs are going to an ink jet system that delivers prettty > good > > quality very flexibly. > > > > Don > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >