Digital printing is a future necessity.(Merchandising)

NEW YORK -- Consumers are bringing fewer rolls of film in for developing. Photofinishers processed an estimated 583 million rolls of film in 2004, according to the Photo Marketing Association (PMA). That is a decline of more than 25% from the 781 million rolls processed in 2000, when photofinishing was at its peak.

The dollar value of the photofinishing market is also declining, the PMA reports, from a peak of $6.23 billion in 2000 to an estimated $4.58 billion last year.

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A number of mass retailers, though, have managed to turn around their slumping photofinishing sales, and ...

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Digital printing is a future necessity.(Merchandising)

MMR, February, 2005

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