[Leica] 1884-2012 Kodak Film.

[benedenia at gmail.com (Marty Deveney)]

> Maybe whoever buys the Kodak paper division will bring back Kodak B&W 
> papers.

The machinery to make the B&W papers was all in Brazil and was
scrapped a long time ago.  I doubt re-tooling would make economic
sense, although they might get a cut-rate coating line when another
manufacturer gets out of the market.  Maybe when Fuji decides to stops
making Rembrandt, although I don't know if Fuji makes and coats that
themselves.

The great difficulty lies in the physical machinery being a vital link
between the chemistry and the characteristics of the products.  If you
could make exactly the Ektalure formula, but used a different set of
mixing and coating machines, the properties of the product would be
vastly different.

Marty