New Xerox presses have new low-gloss toner, in-line spectrophotometer and more in-line finishing options
Xerox Corp., Rochester, N.Y., announced the Xerox DocuColor 7002/8002 Digital Presses, featuring new low gloss toner, which produces a smooth matte finish; automated color workflow; in-line spectrophotometer; and expanded in-line finishing options including the GBC eBinder 200, Xerox Tape Binder, Horizon ColorWorks and ColorWorks Pro Document Finisher. The company says the in-line spectrophotometer and ACQS [...]
Nikon introduces four compacts, include one with built-in projector
Nikon Inc., Melville, N.Y., introduced four new Coolpix Style Series compact digital cameras, including its first built-in projector. Building on the success of Nikon’s previous touch-screen models, the ultra-stylish Coolpix S70 features an enhanced interface and organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display technology for a new user experience, housed in a stylish camera body. The Coolpix [...]
These windows are winners
A store’s main windows can have many functions, but the primary one is to promote the business and draw in customers. To that end, Independent Photo Imagers (IPI), headquartered in Henderson, Nev., has recognized winners of its Window Display Contest, open to all IPI members and running from April 15 through June 30. The contest [...]
Amazon offers instant product matches from photos or barcode scans
Amazon.com Inc., Seattle, Wash., releases its latest mobile shopping application, “Amazon App for Android,” which is now available as a free download to a user’s device in Android Market. Designed specifically for Android, the Amazon App offers users a fast and convenient way to shop on Amazon.com and thousands of other merchants wherever they go. [...]
Photomizer fixes photos automatically
The Photomizer “tries to reconstruct the picture that the photographer saw when he took the photo,” says developer Engelmann Media GmbH. The Windows application is billed as a “fully automatic photo studio” analysing photos for color, exposure, and clarity, and boosts image quality and luminosity. Photomizer’s object recognition ensures the program manipulates only the parts [...]
Phanfare announces Phanfare Pro for customizable archival photo and video hosting
Phanfare introduces Phanfare Pro, a customizable archival photo and video hosting solution targeted at prosumers and professional photographers. Among many other features, it allows you to create a website of your own photos and videos without Phanfare branding at yourname.phanfare.com; build up to 1,000 subsites, each one with a URL of yourname.phanfare.com/subsite and containing any [...]
Walgreens July sales increase 7.3 percent
Walgreens, Deerfield, Ill., had July sales of $5.3 billion, an increase of 7.3 percent from $4.9 billion for the same month in 2008. Sales in comparable stores (those open at least a year) increased 2.0 percent. Comparable store front-end sales decreased 1.3 percent. Front-end sales were hurt by slowing sales of discretionary items in a [...]
Got a minute? Learn how to get your sale noticed on today’s PMA Marketing Moment
In today’s PMA Marketing Moment, explains how simple and dramatic window treatments can get your sale noticed. Davis, CPF, GCF, is an industry recognized educator with 17 years of experience in the framing industry. He has written numerous articles for major industry publications, as well as the book, “Getting the Most Value from Your CMC.” [...]
New on PMA TV: Sports photography from a Sports Illustrated perspective
Feel the excitement of shooting the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games as Sports Illustrated Director of Photography Steve Fine shares his experiences in a video of Fine’s SPAA 2009 session, now on PMA TV. As a long-time professional sports photographer for the renowned international sports publication, Fine’s experiences and advice make this video worth watching, [...]
