Speaking as someone who works with a massive photographic printing company, Kodak did this to themselves. Over the last 10 years they became the sole industrial scale supplier of silver halide paper which is used in the chemical photographic printing process. Being a monopoly, they did what monopolies do and jacked up the price again and again until it became prohibitively expensive to use. Print producers have since switched to high speed roll fed inkjet solutions and Kodak are now fucked by their own greed.
Speaking as someone who works with a massive photographic printing company, Kodak did this to themselves. Over the last 10 years they became the sole industrial scale supplier of silver halide paper which is used in the chemical photographic printing process. Being a monopoly, they did what monopolies do and jacked up the price again and again until it became prohibitively expensive to use. Print producers have since switched to high speed roll fed inkjet solutions and Kodak are now fucked by their own greed.
Not to mention they invented the damn digital camera and sat on the patent to ensure film cameras continued. Their greed knows no bounds.
“Hey boss I made a novel technology that allows you to take photos without film and you can put them on a computer!”
“WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU STEVEN”