Re: [APML] Film and Wal-mart!

[Rob Miracle <rwm@photo-miracles.com>]

At 04:31 PM 8/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>     Rob> If your Walmart has a Fuji Frontier, they can print direct
>     Rob> RA-4 color film prints from the slides.  They have a very
>     Rob> good film scanner which they use to make the prints from.
>     Rob> Slides and print film become interchangeable with a Frontier.
>
>This isn't the same as the little Fuji kiosks I've seen, is it?  I
>gave up on my local shop doing prints from slide scans since they
>didn't seem to know how to adjust the brightness.  My scans look good,
>theirs are nearly black.

No.  You are thinking of their Aladdin Kiosk.  The Fuji Frontier is a large 
"mini-lab" system.  It uses regular color print paper and chemistry (RA-4 
process) and the paper is exposed by an LED/Laser system.  It supports 4", 
6", 8" and 10" papers.    It prints on Fuji Crystal Archive, the longest 
life RA-4 color print paper in the industry.

The guts of the system include a high speed, high quality film scanner and 
a system that can read just about any digital media from CD-R's, to 
Memory-Stick.   I'm sure they will be adding the new media types as they 
come out as well.

There are several models, but the large 370 is the most popular.   Costco, 
WalMart, Eckards and Ritz have been putting them in nationwide.  I would 
probably guess that half of the WalMarts/Sams Club's that have one hour 
facilities have been upgraded nation wide.   Its wield how WalMart is 
putting them in.    All three WalMarts in our area have them as does one of 
the two Sams Club (I've not checked the other one yet....)   Yet when I was 
in North Charleston, I checked two different ones there and neither had them.


Rob
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Rob Miracle
Photographic Miracles
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Apex, NC 27502
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