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Article: H.S. Photo Processing. (Professional labs).(digital printer technology)
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- PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities
- Article date:
- October 1, 2002
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In business since 1984, as a wedding, portrait and school lab, H.S. Photo Processing Inc., Atlanta, Ga., employs roughly 65 people during the busy fall season, and occupies 20,000 square feet in its industrial park setting.
Currently running 10 different optical printers, the lab is converting to digital technology at a prudent pace and digitizes only 30 to 40 percent of negatives at the time of processing.
"It's not yet cost-effective for us to digitize all film," says owner Robert Stokes, who, with his wife, founded the business. In addition to C-41 processing and RA-4 printing, the lab also runs a dip-and-dunk, nitrogen-burst, black-and-white line, ...