日本国内数码冲印领域的发展

Development of Domestic Digital Photo Print Service Business in Japan

本文对日本1997-2009年数码影像冲洗业务的发展情况进行综述,并展望了今后的发展趋势。通过统计数字分析,可以看到银盐胶片拍摄的数量在逐年减少,2009年为15.4亿张,仅为高峰年1997年122亿张的12.6%;用数码相机拍摄的数量逐年增加,2004年即已经超过胶片拍摄的数量。但送数码店印照片的,一般还是用银盐彩色相纸印制照片,在家庭印制照片却用照相级喷墨打印纸,在自助影像亭印制照片则用热升华型数码照片打印机。大容量的存储介质的推广又使冲印比例下降,导致总的数码影像冲洗店业务的下降。

This paper presents a review on the development of digital photo print business in Japan during 1997-2009 and the prospects of its future trends.The analysis of statistics figures showed that the number of shootings using silver salts films has been decreasing year by year,hit only 1.54 billion formats in 2009,about 12.6% of its top figure of 12,2 billion in 1997,whereas the number of shootings using digital cameras has been increasing annually,and already jumped in 2004 over that using camera films,though digital printing service shops normally are still using silver salts color photographic paper for photo printing.Home printing has been increasing incessantly and is using photo grade inkjet printing paper while selfhelp print kiosks are using heat sublimation printers.The wide use of high capacity memory cards has reduced the printing ratio thus decreasing the total business turnover of digital photo service shops.