PMA Data Watch: Printing behavior of U.S. consumers

According to the 2009 PMA Camera/Camcorder Digital Imaging Survey, 45 percent of U.S. households made paper prints from digital images in 2008. For digital camera households only, this number jumps to 61 percent. The average number of prints made per image was 1.6 in 2008 for those households that made paper prints. The number of [...]

Tiny Prints launches premium photo books

Online premium stationery company Tiny Prints, Mountain View, Calif., has teamed up with photo book maker MyCanvas.com, owned and operated by Ancestry.com, to launch a premium photo books service. This partnership marks an important milestone for Tiny Prints as it expands its product offerings beyond personalized stationery and favors. With the premium photo books from [...]

SanDisk unveils new, color-coded packaging

SanDisk Corp., will offer its products in a new packaging, designed to make it easy for consumers to recognize products and understand benefits, Telecomtiger reports. New packaging will reinforce brand identity and use a new color code. Red packaging will indicate SanDisk Standard products; silver, SanDisk Ultra products; and black, SanDisk Extreme products

E-mail marketing delivery rates may be lower than you think

eMarketer reports a study from Return Path indicates e-mail marketers may not be achieving the delivery rate they believe they are getting – typically considered around 95 percent. In addition to “hard bounce” non-delivery, filters from ISPs and companies may be directing many e-mail messages to bulk or spam folders without informing the sender. Others [...]

OSHA fines International Paper for safety violations after employee death

International Paper leadership was given 15 days to appeal fines of more than $100,000 for safety violations at a plant in Augusta, Ga., according to Georgia Public Broadcasting. Officials of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) imposed the fines after inspecting the facility following the death of an employee who was struck by a [...]

Rite Aid unveils new online savings program

Rite Aid Corp., Camp Hill, Pa., announces a new online savings program where customers can save with coupons they can print after watching short informational videos on select products. The Video Values program was created by AdPerk, a provider of strategic video marketing solutions for retailers. Customers can click on the Video Values image on [...]

Learn how changes in book publishing may impact the way we share images in today’s DIMAcast

The world of book publishing is evolving at a break-neck pace, and changing with it is the concept of a photo book. In today’s DIMAcast, Rochester Institute of Technology professor explains how simple photo book publishing has become, how photo books are perceived by young consumers, and why the method we use to share an [...]