FREE TICKETS!

• FREE TICKETS! – www. photo mart .co.uk in association with Fujifilm has 20 tickets to the HP Magnum Printing Masterclass, worth £50 each, to give away FREE! to PhotoWeek! readers. John Grayston of Fujifilm tells us all you have to do to claim your tickets is call www.photomart.co.uk on 0870 011 5761 and ask for a no-obligation quotation for a Fujifilm HP GreenBox wide format solution. Photomart will include a 3% discount on the quotation, and will send you tickets to the Masterclass. [expand story >>>]

The HP/Magnum Photography and Printing Masterclass will be held on May Day in the BFI (British Film Institute) on London's South Bank. It will feature well known Magnum photographers Donovan Wylie (featured in The Genius of Photography) and Chris Steele-Perkins (author of The Teds photo book).



Fujifilm HP GreenBox wide format solutions are bundles based on HP printers, combined with a Fujifilm RIP, training CD, colour management tools and media. They're everything you need to implement in-house wide format enlargements and canvas printing in your business, without having to make it all up yourself!

Booking a no-obligation quotation with www.photomart.co.uk will help you to decide which GreenBox solution might be right for you, and will secure you a 3% discount valid for as long as the quote is valid – as well as get you your free tickets! Offer closes April 30, 2008.
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DRY LABS DEBUT AT FOCUS!

• Dry Labs Debut at FOCUS ! – The FOCUS on Imaging show is in full swing right now at the NEC, and one of the themes this year seems to be dry lab. Noritsu and Fujifilm have hardware-identical models on show, and Kodak is showing its Apex system. Apex is based on what Kodak have always called thermal technology (dye sub to the rest of us), while the Noritsu and Fujifilm systems are industrial inkjets. [expand story >>>]

"Our new Frontier DryLab 400 is an inkjet lab", John Grayston of Fujifilm tells PhotoWeek! "It prints up to 10"x36", it's very quick, and it's a very easy process. The price is expected to be about £15.5K and we're aiming for a cost-per-print that's closer to wet lab costs than dye sub ones."



Lewis Martindale, Managing Director of www.photomart.co.uk (on stand M-2 at the show) told us his company would supply both the Fujifilm and the Kodak solutions: "Whether the future is wet or dry, inkjet or thermal", he said, "that future will be delivered by www.photomart.co.uk"

Graham Hill of Kodak assured us that his corporation's new Apex lab, although the technology is thermal, should deliver a cost-per-print comparable to wet lab. The media used in the new Apex lab is different to that used in dye sub instant print kiosks, and presumably costs less to produce. [add comment]