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the magazine religiously. It was wonderful towork with people whom I admired so much.Box One also did a lot of jobbing work.Work that other labs didn’t want or consideredunprofitable, they sent to Box One. Duggal andStewart, two of the city's larger custom labs, weresteady clients. One day I received a job fromStewart for a black and white negative and printto be made of a 4x5 color transparency. Theclient was CTW, the Children's TelevisionWorkshop. The photo was of the cast of SesameStreet. I thought this strange because CTW wasone of our better clients. Why would they besending work to Stewart Labs? I showed the jobto Capri and she said that we had been doing alot of conversion negs from Stewart Labs withSesame Street characters in the photos. I calledour contact at CTW and asked why she had beensending conversion negs to Stewart. I pointed outthat Stewart charged $15 per conversion neg andBox One only charged $8. She explained that shehad sent a transparency to Box One and one toStewart, and that Stewart's neg was vastlysuperior. I asked her if both labs were sent thesame transparency. She said, "no." "Thatexplains it," I said. "You were comparing applesand oranges." I then told her that Box One didall of Stewart's conversion negs, so the samplethat she sent to Stewart, which she thought wasso superior, was actually done by Box One. She253