This is getting old but Photo District News recently reported that Kodak is ceasing to make black and white photographic paper. While this latest move is not particularly surprising - we are, afterall, all waiting macabrely in the wings for film photography's death - Kodak's stance on the matter is a little odd due to its internal conflict. I don't use kodak's paper, but the lab I work in uses Kodak's chemistry, and this is the norm. Oddly, Kodak is encouraging people to use other paper manufacturers (see fourth paragraph in article link), emphasising that it still continues to make the chemistry. The obvous reason for this is that there's more money in the chemistry than the paper for Kodak but this internal tension cannot sustain itself readily given that it is pulling out of one half of the same market.