Between 2010 and 2017, a company called New55 Holdings, LLC (under its brand, "New55 FILM") researched and brought to market a black and white 4x5 positive-negative material that is exposed and processed in a Polaroid 545 holder. New55 PN provided a positive print and negative that could be scanned, contact printed, or enlarged. In May 2014, New55 FILM was successfully crowd-funded at
Kickstarter for the purpose of bringing it to market. Between 2014 and 2017, New55 FILM sold New55 PN and other related products direct to photographers all over the world, generating over $1 million in sales. Upon the failure of a key component supplier (the pod) and while demand remained strong, the company ended operations on December 31, 2017, closing out the proof-of-principle R&D phase of the project. Among the innovative features of New55 PN was the more environmentally friendly aqueous material application method used to coat the print. The New55 PN system also improved over Polaroid's Type 55 by having a lower parts-count (thus less thrown away) and, in the photographic results, the New55 PN positive and negative densities were identical (where the Polaroid Type 55's were a stop or two apart, forcing the sacrifice of either the positive or the negative in order to gain ideal exposure on only one of the two components). New55 FILM also brought back a product like Kodak's old Ready-Load and FujiFilm's QuickLoad products that were discontinued, called 1SHOT Ready Loaded Sheet Film. 1SHOT established a way for 4x5 photographers to shoot Ilford's HP5+, Kodak's TRI-X, TMAX, Portra 160 and 400, and Fujifilm's Velvia 100 as well as New55 FILM's Atomic-X 100 4x5 sheet films—all in the New55 FILM's special packet system for the legacy Polaroid 545 (545i and 545 Pro) Land Film Holder. Additionally, New55 FILM manufactured and sold its monobath developer called R5 MONOBATH DEVELOPER, a single solution for developing black and white photographic film negatives in 6 minutes in a daylight tank. ==References==