What Type Of Dry Lab Do You Have?

I Was asked to Move to a new store. It is inside Sun City in Texas. They Are telling me that my store is going to be one of the busiest in my district. I was told the only downside to my lab is that it is not going to process film. I am getting a dry lab. At my current store I have a film processor and a Noritsu d703 printer. All I have heard is that my store will be a creative store with a dry lab.

You will probably have the Fuji dry lab. We've had it for about a year and love it. We still have our old film processor but the new stores aren't getting them. Don't worry, you won't miss it.

wagmybutt wrote:

You will probably have the Fuji dry lab. We've had it for about a year and love it. We still have our old film processor but the new stores aren't getting them. Don't worry, you won't miss it.

But the customers will. Every day I have new customers who are surprised that we can still develop their film. We get the customers who bought film from CVS, and yet were told that CVS couldn't develop it. And those who came to us after WalMart stopped doing it as well.

When we drop services, we drop customers. It's that simple.

I have many professional (and a few inspired beginning) photog custs who have top-of-the-line analog cams... worth from hundreds to thousands, the reason they don't switch to digital. College students, studio photographers, magazine photogs, medical professionals, and more (fringe hobby groups, airline corps, list goes on).

Most of those are same-day-processing types. I know every one by face/name/spouse/children/sibl ings, and they are used to dropping off/picking up their orders on my shift, as in they know they won't have to wait more than a couple of hours.

There's ONE organization leader who is laid back about picking up his pics. He can wait A WHOLE DAY.

**When we go dry, they'll say bye.**

Did I type all of that

to make that stupid rhyme?

There's no way to tell now...

I guess we'll know, in time...

Sry

In my area, there are still Walgreens that will do one day/one hour film processing. Customers will drive to those stores to get them done, or they'll decide they can wait a week to get their pictures back.

As poster above stated, many companies don't even offer the film developing at any level at all anymore.

I'm not sure if they have made any store a Creative Lab and kept their film processing and inkjet machine. Most of the stores that weren't converted are the ones who kept these machines if they had them.

It looks like it's a tradeoff - keep the film machine and keep your film customers happy... or move to the Creative Lab and bring in new customers that want special projects done the same day.

One of my last stores had a NexLab dry lab. I hated it-total junk.

My last store still had Fuji wet lab-inc. film processor and inkjet, was a creative store too. But that store is a good money maker store normally.

We have nexlab. We process film and our customers are happy. The machine likes to act up a lot though.

Oh.sorry I misread title...I thought it said what type of dry farts do you have.

Those ink machines are a waist of space.