Photo gifts: No longer “trinkets and trash”
All the speakers for the photo gifting session at the PMA Canada Expo 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, saw this market as one loaded with potential, just waiting for retailers to pounce on it.
Retailer Paul Clairmont, Lord Photo, St.-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, Canada, states emphatically he was not happy with his photo gifting business, and is determined [...]
Track your marketing efforts
For Karla Elder, Jackson’s Extraordinary Custom Framing, Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada, success is learning to not only attract, but also retain, customers. To that end, she explained at a PMA Expo Canada 2009 business session, she is very particular about her marketing strategy. She has to be able to track whatever marketing tool she [...]
Shutterfly acquires mobile imaging company Tiny Pictures
Shutterfly Inc., Redwood City, Calif., acquired Tiny Pictures, a privately held San Francisco-based developer of picture and video sharing services backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and Mohr Davidow Ventures. Tiny Pictures’s founder and CEO, John Poisson, along with the Tiny Pictures team, will join Shutterfly. Tiny Pictures’ flagship product is Radar, a service for [...]
Canon announces new CREO color server for Canon imagePRESS units
Canon U.S.A. Inc., Lake Success, N.Y., introduced a new color server for the Canon imagePRESS C7000VP/C6000VP/C6000 digital presses – the imagePRESS CR Server A7000, powered by CREO Color Server Technology. canon says this new server is a robust and flexible front-end solution [...]
Samsung Electronics offers new home theater projector
Samsung Electronics America Inc. released the A600, the latest A Series (A/V) Home Theater Projector with Full High Definition (HD) 1080p performance. The A600 builds on Samsung’s engineering depth and leverages the image performance and color quality of the acclaimed A800 and A900 Full HD 1080p “Joe Kane Signature Series” projectors. The A600 will be [...]
What’s “hot” for Christmas?
Some surprising – and some expected – products made the “Hot Picks” list at PMA Canada Expo 2009. Taking up an idea first floated at PMA09 and PMA Australia, selected retailers wandered the trade show floor looking for the products or services they thought could work well for them and other retailers during the Christmas [...]
Learn tips on selling photography on canvas in a new PMA TV video
The Gallery Director of the Institute of Visual Arts in Maui, Hawaii, shares the ins and outs of selling photography on canvas in a new segment now available on PMA TV.
Dazzboard offers free, unlimited cloud storage for pictures, videos or music
Dazzboard, a free online “webtop” (like a desktop but online), will officially announce a partnership with the social cloud storage provider MySites, allowing anyone to upload an unlimited amount of gigabytes — photos, videos or music files — free.
Dazzboard is a free service, to remotely store, and share data online or on the phone. [...]
Deadline nears for 2010 PIEA Photo Competition
As the images from the 2009 PIEA Photo Exhibition and Competition travel the world, the deadline for the 2010 PIEA Photo Competition is rapidly approaching. The 2010 deadline is Dec. 4; rules and regulations are available online . As of September there were 61 sponsors donating nearly US$140,000 in goods and services for the 2010 event. [...]
X-Rite extends partnerships with Compose Systems, EFI and Fujifilm
X-Rite Inc., Grand Rapids, Mich., and Compose Systems, a developer of prepress workflow, digital color proofing and print publishing solutions, extended their partnership to offer prepress professionals an automated dot-for-dot proofing solution to produce high-quality screened contract proofs on inkjet printers. Compose Systems has optimized the new version of its Star Proof proofing technology (version [...]
