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John Hawkinson
Film God

Posts: 2273
From: Cambridge, MA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 06-13-2004 07:31 AM

Stephen Furley: "You couldn't expect the depot staff to check a brand new can of fiilm to make sure that the label matched what was inside."

Well, over here, you can. TES says that the rate of "mixed reels" (as they call them) from the lab is sufficiently non-zero to make it worth checking, and so they do.

--jhawk

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 06-14-2004 08:23 AM

Each reel is printed separately, often on different days and on different equipment. Most of the labs have a computerized tracking system using barcode on each reel, to be sure each shipment contains the correct reels. But mistakes do happen.

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