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Polaroid is going to stop manufacturing film

Polaroid is going to stop manufacturing film for their instant cameras, which they stopped making a year ago.

The company, which stopped making instant cameras for consumers a year ago and for commercial use a year before that, said today that as soon as it had enough instant film manufactured to last it through 2009, it would stop making that, too. Three plants that make large-format instant film will close by the end of the quarter, and two that make consumer film packets will be shut by the end of the year, Bloomberg News reports.

Hopefully someone else will pick up where they left off; Polaroid is willing to license the manufacturing technology to other companies. (via clusterflock)

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This entry was published on February 09, 2008 at 12:37 pm.

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