From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!uwvax!michael
Newsgroups: net.rec.photo
Title: Photo Lab survey response
Article-I.D.: crystal.162
Posted: Sat Feb 12 20:40:28 1983
Received: Tue Feb 15 03:28:50 1983

There were 7 responses to my query about mail order photo labs.  Here are
the results:
	Kodak                    5 votes
	Modernage (NY)           1 vote
	Custom Quality (Chicago) 1 vote
The person that recommended Custom Quality pointed out an article in Consumer
Reports in July of 82 that rated labs.  In the article (which I can recommend
highly) they got two sets of results.  CU did their own sampling and check rated
two labs, one was Custom Quality and the other was Clark Color Lab (Washington
DC).  They also took a survey of readers and got the same results that I did -
Kodak was the overwhelming choice.  Their own ratings put Kodak one notch below
the two mentioned above.  They suggest that Kodak's popularity in the survey may
this may be a result of their size.  Two other labs that got high ratings in 
CU's survey were Mystic Color Lab (Mystic, Conn.) and Skrudland Photo Service
(Hebron, Ill.).

Thanks to all that responded.
Alan Michael
michael@uwisc
uwvax!michael