Luminous Landscape Forum
Site & Board Matters => About This Site => Topic started by: BJL on August 01, 2013, 10:54:48 am
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To clarify today's news, which has been misreported on some other sites: it is the Swiss maker of inkjet printer paper, Ilford Imaging, that is now in bankruptcy trouble, not the English film products company Ilford, now trading as Ilford Photo http://www.ilfordphoto.com. Apparently, the old Ilford was split into two companies some years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilford_Photo
Ironically, it was then the inkjet paper business was more profitable part and expected to have a brighter future.
The moral seems to be: do not try to attach the prestige earned over the decades by one product line to a different, only slightly related one: Hasselblad, take note!
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Darn. This news bodes ill for my favourite day-to-day letter-size printing paper. Namely, Costco's "Kirkland Professional Inkjet Glossy Paper". At $20 for 150 sheets, it's a bargain and it looks great.
Another forum member informed us in the past that it's an Ilford product.
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Canson's sales of Baryta Photographique are about to go up significantly, me thinks.
Rand
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The moral seems to be: do not try to attach the prestige earned over the decades by one product line to a different, only slightly related one: Hasselblad, take note!
I'm not sure going from photographic paper to inkjet photographic paper is only slightly related. Their FB Al paper was excellent.