Fuji Hunt Photographic Chemicals has found that the constant unsettling changes experienced in the supply chain of photographic imaging products and services over recent months has made many owners of businesses operating minilab systems anxious about sourcing ongoing supplies of suitable photochemistry and other consumables in order to assure their future business.
Many businesses which, over the last decade, have enjoyed a surge in demand for minilab services, have been developed at the expense of important investments on staff, equipment and marketing as they have relied on their primary suppliers for support in these areas. Now, because of the withdrawal from the industry by some key players, these processors are finding their whole businesses are at stake.
Fortunately, Fujifilm and Fuji Hunt, generally recognised as today's market-leaders and offering a complete range of the highest possible quality products, have realised in time the need for their pro-active involvement in order to secure the future of those businesses - indeed, of the photographic industry at large.
The company's philosophy is not only to further improve the Fujifilm and Fuji Hunt product ranges through innovation and on-going huge investment in research and development, but to also enable the end-user to take advantage of their leading-edge technological products.
To achieve this, the companies are offering their complete ranges of equipment, AgX sensitized film and papers and, very importantly, specialised photochemistry in dedicated packaging to enable those businesses using the latest generations of Agfa paper and film processors in particular, to continue to run their labs without interruption.
This new photochemistry is in addition to the range of Fuji Hunt photochemistry already available for users of earlier generations of Agfa processors as well as other brands of analogue and digital minilabs. These products, now available from Fuji Hunt, have been extensively tested on numerous brands of films and papers under the most stringent market conditions and are a guarantee of consistent high quality processing and printing.
The Fuji Hunt alternative for Agfa d-lab.1 and d-lab.2 paper processors is the EnviroPrint ADM paper cartridge. In the film processing segment, the combination of EnviroNeg ADM film cartridges F1 and F2 DL packs is the Fuji Hunt alternative for the Agfa d-lab.1 film processor, and EnviroNeg ADM film cartridges F1 and F2 FP are perfect for the Agfa fp.210 film processor series.
All these products are fully customised, requiring no process or processor adjustments by the operator. Detailed information on these products, and on the use of Fuji Hunt alternative chemistry for earlier generations of Agfa minilabs, can be found on the Fuji Hunt website (www.fujihunt.com) which also carries details of alternative Fuji Hunt chemistry for use with Kis Photo-Me, Noritsu, San Marco, and Gretag minilab processors.