HP helps retailers expand offerings with new, industry-first minilab
HP, Palo Alto, Calif., announced an industry-first publishing solution that gives retailers the opportunity to expand the breadth and quality of their in-store photo services and capture more of the rapidly growing photo merchandise market. The HP Photosmart ML1000D Minilab printer is the first dry, inkjet minilab capable of producing traditional single-sided photo prints as [...]
Canon and HP align to provide office workflow solutions
Canon Inc., Tokyo, Japan, and HP, Palo Alto, Calif., announced an expanded alliance to jointly market and distribute a new range of multifunction office systems that unite Canon’s leading multifunction devices and HP’s enterprise printing and imaging assets. The alliance builds on an established relationship between Canon and HP, and positions the companies to offer [...]
Shutterfly elects Brian Swette to board of directors
Shutterfly Inc., Redwood City, Calif., added Brian Swette to its board of directors. Swette brings more than 25 years of international marketing, strategy, and general management experience helping consumer-oriented companies scale their business. He has served on the board of Burger King since 2003 and became non-executive chairman in 2006. Formerly the COO of eBay, [...]
SBA issues H1N1 flu prep guide for small businesses
The Small Business Administration, Washington, D.C., announced a free a preparedness guide available for download designed to assist small businesses in planning for the possibility of an H1N1 flu outbreak this fall. Outbreaks of H1N1 flu are occurring now and will likely coincide with the return of seasonal flu this fall and winter. The preparedness [...]
Kyocera develops “world’s fastest inkjet printhead”
Kyocera Corp., Kyoto, Japan, says it has developed the world’s fastest inkjet printhead — the key component in inkjet printing equipment. Each nozzle in the new KJ4 Series printhead ejects ink at up to 60,000 dots per second (at 60kHz drive frequency); with 2,656 nozzles per head, the device is capable of printing approximately 150 [...]
Olympus has firmware update for E-P1
Firmware updates have been announced by Olympus Imaging America Inc., Center Valley, Pa., for the Olympus E-P1 and the Zuiko Digital ED 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 and 17mm f/2.8 lenses to improve focusing performance. The firmware update 1.1 for the Olympus E-P1 will improve the camera’s continuous AF (C-AF) operation. Both lenses will benefit with enhanced autofocus performance.
Imaging Executive podcast reveals how to make money selling photography now
Richard Weisgrau was the executive director of the American Society of Media Photographers for fifteen years. In today’s AIE Imaging Executive podcast, he describes the changes that have impacted the commercial photography field, and what pro shooters need to do to make a sale.
Sigma Corp. announces new 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG OS Telephoto Lens
Sigma Corp., Ronkonkoma, N.Y., announces the new 70-300mm F4-5.6 DG OS lens. This compact, telephoto zoom lens provides an extremely long zoom range that can capture an array of subject matter spanning from portrait to sports photography. In fact, with smaller chip cameras from Canon, Nikon, Sony and Pentax, this large-aperture lens’ focal length grows [...]
Panasonic hosts community electronics recycling collection event
Panasonic Corp. of North America, Secaucus, N.J., is hosting a consumer electronics recycling collection event at its corporate campus on Sept. 19, 2009 starting at 9:00 a.m. Panasonic has more than 300 locations in its Nationwide Recycling Program and holds events across the country, helping to keep millions of pounds of electronics out of already [...]
Berquist now Corel CFO
Tom Berquist has been named the Chief Financial Officer for software company Corel Corp., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Berquist will be responsible for providing financial leadership for Corel’s global operations in the Americas, EMEA, Asia Pacific and Japan.
