Re-Lauch of AGFA MULTICONTRAST MCC/MCP photo paper!

[ath]

I'd buy it. I always thought their MC Classic fiber was just about one of the best papers around.

Do you have a link to the German text?

Hello Harry,

the original text is here: http://www.aphog.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=968 (a kind of german apug)
You have to register before you can read ist.

[ADOX Fotoimpex]

Hmm well, actually even the German version forced us to do some heavy headscratching to find out what Hartmuth wants to tell us.

My personal interpretation is this:

- scientists are working on the redevelopment of MCC
- investment is huge and thus Fotoimpex will be out of the game because financially more powerfull distributors are needed to back this up
- or maybe not....but at least there will be more than one distributor
- the announcement made by maco that the paper will be back on the shelves in march can be best described as a marketing bubble

Keeping in mind that this announcemend is made by a guy payed by maco (according to my informations at least) I sort of wonder what is going on here. Maybe he switched sides ?

Anyways. I am sorry to say that I can´t make any real usefull announcement today as there are no real news about the paper project available.

Tests are continuing and as other knowledgeable people on this forum have pointed out besides me: it takes time and we are far from beeing able to say we´re there yet.

Whoever will be involved in distribution is not really the topic of today, I think.
Let´s make the paper first.

Regards to all,

Mirko

[Petzi]

Hmm well, actually even the German version forced us to do some heavy headscratching to find out what Hartmuth wants to tell us.

My personal interpretation is this:

- scientists are working on the redevelopment of MCC
- investment is huge and thus Fotoimpex will be out of the game because financially more powerfull distributors are needed to back this up

Yes, the announcement seems to be directed against you. That is my interpretation also. However, if they had the millions that they are talking about, they could have saved the Agfa coating facility from demolition, which has begun this Monday.

I am disgusted.

[avandesande]

This coating facility is not capable of making money, no matter who backs it. It is probably way too large and complex to make a small volume of paper.

The idea that coating facilities need to be capable of doing smaller runs of a greater number of products is a compelling one.

Yes, the announcement seems to be directed against you. That is my interpretation also. However, if they had the millions that they are talking about, they could have saved the Agfa coating facility from demolition, which has begun this Monday.

I am disgusted.

[Petzi]

This coating facility is not capable of making money, no matter who backs it. It is probably way too large and complex to make a small volume of paper.

I know how large it is, I have seen it. I did not mean to say they should use it for a small run of b/w paper.

Something weird is going on here.

[Photo Engineer]

Es macht mir sehr ungemutlich.

PE

[Petzi]

Es macht mir sehr ungemutlich.

PE

Pretty much everything that is connected with the AgfaPhoto insolvency makes me feel uncomfortable. You could write a book about all the failings that occurred at every stage of the whole thing.

[Photo Engineer]

OTOH, if it all works out, es mir doch gewaltig!

PE

[Mark Layne]

OTOH, if it all works out, es mir doch gewaltig!

PE

Well Ron, since you're up on the German could you translate this for me. 'Sicht nicht fart benutzen'. Its written under the pop up top on my Westphalia camper. I couldn't translate it so I always went outside. Maybe it's Gaelic
Mark

[Photo Engineer]

Roughly, don't fart in the camper?

No, really it means one must not use this while moving.

PE