Kodak Printfilm 4111

[B van der Sluis]

Dear newsgroup readers,

For long time i use Kodak Printfilm 4111 to print color negatives on. Now i
hear rumors that Kodak will stop production. I send a few e-mails to Kodak,
but no answer.
Know anybody more? Or know a e-mail address from Kodak that will answer my
question?

Thanks in advance

[James Robinson]

B van der Sluis wrote:
>
> For long time i use Kodak Printfilm 4111 to print color negatives on.
> Now i hear rumors that Kodak will stop production.

There's nothing on their web site indicating they are discontinuing
Vericolor Print film, but that doesn't necessarily mean they won't in
the future.

> know a e-mail address from Kodak that will answer my question?

You can call them directly. Here is a link to their worldwide telephone
numbers:

http://www.kodak.com/include/international.shtml

Or for the USA (There's a link to send Emails at the bottom of the
page.):

http://www.kodak.com/global/en/service/contactKodak/index.jhtml

In most cases, you can also send an email to tec...@kodak.com

[Dan Carp]

>Know anybody more?

it still requires formaldehyde processing,

kodak wants to get rid of formaldehyde out of their photochemical
manufacturing plants because it incurs much governmental regulation,
monitoring requirements, record keeping, and risk of civil retribution from
employees

but they don't want to spend the money on film programs to replace the
magenta dye coupler in this film requiring formaldehyde, a simple film
program like that costs kodak on the order of $5,000,000 when its all said
and done, not counting the opportunity cost of what R&D could be doing
besides that

same logic around vericolor slide film

same reason they discontinued VPS when Portra came out

in fact it was the PRIMARY motive for Portra and their other new
professional films, anything else you got was coincidental because the
customer requirement specifications were equal performance, not better,
except for tolerances in process variability and control, which are worse
with ALL films containing wandering/scavengering dye systems intended to
improve saturation of primaries, VPS and older films had none of that and
had very good process tolerance, and not that bad primaries either