[Frameworks] date coding on kodak s-8mm cartridges

[Jean-Louis Seguin]

Nowhere in those batch numbers is there any clue to the manufacturing date or expiry date. Only Kodak would know for sure.

Look at p.11 of the Kodak Motion Picture Catalog for an explanation of those numbers.

Jean-Louis

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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Marco Poloni <mar.poloni at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Frameworkers,
> 
> I received a large batch of Kodak Vision 3 200T/7213 super-8mm
> cartridges for a project. I am trying to understand the expiry date
> coding to be sure the batch is right. I never had issues with Kodak
> but it's a large project so I'd like to feel safe.
> 
> On one side of each cartridge there's a production code that runs as follows:
> PE: 01760831 A
> 7213 065 016.02 19
> 
> The last two digits run from 19 to 25, suggesting that they are days.
> 016 seems to me to stand for 2016, i.e. expiry date 2016.02.19
> 
> Am I correct?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Marco
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