Silly and informative Newman facts and figures:

Customers print over 1,400 prints a week through Newman at Jim's Photo Lab.

The labor time on an order of five reprints from negatives is approximately four minutes.  The labor time for a Newman order of five reprints is under 10 seconds. 

If those five reprints each had cropping, the labor time from negatives would be doubled to eight minutes.  From Newman - still under 10 seconds.  No matter how complex the order from Newman, it only takes five mousclicks and two keystrokes to complete it.

The largest single Newman order to date was for $498.00 from nine rolls of film.  Our total operator labor for those orders was under two minutes.  Due to the extreme amount of cropping, we estimate that those orders would have taken over FOUR HOURS if we had printed them from negatives.  (BTW, the operating cost, including payroll, machine and electricity, is over $100 an hour for our Noritsu 2711.) 

Newman stations cost about $4,800 each, plus $1,800 for the software license.

It only took seven weeks for our first Newman to pay for itself.
It only took five weeks for our second Newman to pay for itself.

A big "Thank You" to everybody who has used Newman!

Jim's Photo Lab is one of only 20 photo labs in the United States with more than one Newman.

Newman can speak in three languages - English, French, and German.  Nope, no Spanish. 
We choose the English with a British accent just because he sounds pretty neat. 

Almost 70% of the people who use Newman end up ordering more reprints or enlargements than they had originally intended to.  Jim's Photo Lab likes this :-)

Newman pricing is 20 to 33% lower than regular reprint and enlarging prices. 
Customers at Jim's Photo Lab like that :-)

14% of Newman prints are enlargements, 86% are reprints.  Before Newman, less than 10% of Jim's Photo Lab's output was for enlargements.

Only 28% of Newman inputs come from previously developed rolls of film.  72% comes from digital cameras and/or CD's.

Newman got its name because he was the "New Man" on the front counter.  The name really stuck when the similarity to the Seinfield mailman became apparent.  You see; the first version of Newman would often 'forget' to deliver an order to the printer and/or deliver a given order hours or even days after the order was placed.

Excessive Newman usage at the front counter can cause sever production bottlenecks in the lab.  Jim's Photo Lab is currently in the midst of upgrading our back room printers to alleviate this problem.  We are trying for a ten-minute turnaround on all Newman orders!

In addition to printing from previously developed rolls of film, Newman can print from CD's, Floppy Discs, Smart Media Cards, Compact Flash Cards and Memory Sticks.

Newman was designed by Kodak to access rolls based on a customer's last name.  Due to privacy concerns, Jim's Photo Lab uses a number to identify each roll.  That's why you have to type a number when Newman asks for your last name and why you have to leave the phone number field blank.