From: Carl Weese (cweese@earthlink.net)
Date: 06/26/01-06:11:19 AM Z
Each company will be different, but I know, from interviews, that at Crane
and Company, the smallest "run" that can be made at their smallest plant is
10,000 pounds of finished paper. That's a *lot* of photograph size
sheets....
---Carl
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>From: bmaxey1@juno.com
>To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
>Subject: Re: Palladio
>Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2001, 4:38 AM
>
>>>These figures are of course a facsimile from memory
>>>several years later, but the larger firms required something like -- oh
>>>say 24 million yards/pounds/ or whatever -- for "a making," which (I
>>>believe) she said they could have eventually used. But there was no way
>>>>*to test* the to-order paper without that making... ie, the 24 million
>>>whatevers.
>
> 24 MILLION? No offence and I am sure you are relaying what you were told,
> but think about that number. 24 Million is a huge amount. That is 72
> million feet. This is far above any minimums I have ever heard of. I
> think the number quoted is incorrect or someone misunderstood the
> requirements for the order.
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