GREEN AND YELLOW GIANTS RAISE PRICES!

•  Green & Yellow giants Raise Prices! – The two surviving giants of the traditional photo industry, Fujifilm and Kodak, have both announced massive global price hikes in film and paper. The increases are blamed on factors including global commodities costs – particularly of oil, but also of silver. They become effective by July this year.

Photographers and photo labs are facing a double whammy: not only are analogue materials going up, but most manufacturers' synthetic papers have gone up too. These are used in dye sub printers, photo kiosks and booths, and in ID photo systems. Even the cost of inkjet inks is going up! The increases are as high as an eye-watering twenty per cent in some cases! In the UK these rises can be exacerbated by the weakness of the pound against the euro, which adds to the cost of transferring continental stocks into this country.

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