LifePics launches online photo service for Roberts Imaging
LifePics, Boulder, Colo., and Roberts Imaging, Indianapolis, Ind., announced a new online photo service for Roberts Imaging customers. The new service, provided by LifePics, allows Roberts Imaging customers to order prints and photo products online and pick up the orders at a Roberts Imaging location later that day, or have the orders shipped to a [...]
The September/October issue of PMA magazine is now online
The September/October issue of PMA Magazine – Connecting the Imaging Communities is now available in an interactive format. The browser-based digital edition preserves the publication’s layout, as well as includes hyperlinks and search features. Readers can share and print individual articles, as well as download a PDF for offline reading. Clicking on an article’s headline [...]
InfoTrends predicts merchandise is future of photofinishing market
“Generating revenue from photo merchandise is the only way most vendors in the consumer photo market will survive,” claims InfoTrends. The market research firm says traditional photo print volumes and revenues continue to decline, but the photo merchandise market — custom books, greeting cards, enlargements, posters, framed prints and calendars — will grow substantially, reaching $2.2 billion [...]
Timeless Frames and Timeless Decor launch Timeless Expressions.com
Timeless Frames and Timeless Decor, Watertown, N.Y., award-winning manufacturing operations, announce the launch of the e-commerce website Timelessexpressions.com. Investing over $500,000 in technology and state-of-the-art digital equipment, Timeless Expressions, a PPFA member, has created 8 new jobs in the operations, marketing and IT fields and occupies over 22,000 square feet of space in the Timeless Décor [...]
PMA, PPFA launch health benefits helpline with Meadowbrook Insurance
PMA and PPFA have teamed up with Meadowbrook Insurance Group — one of the 25 largest insurance brokers in the country– to offer members quotes on medical, dental, life, and long-term care insurance, and to offer assistance on benefits issues. Meadowbrook representatives will be calling members; or members may visit www.meadowbrook.com/agency/pma or call the PMA Benefits Helpline [...]
Imaging Innovations — in the new issue of The 6Sight Report
The latest issue of The 6Sight Report, the voice of the 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference, is now available online. The report is $39. This month’s edition focuses on new innovations in imaging. • Original ideas in Photography and 3D • New Cameras for Fall • Tessera Transforms Optics A look at a wide array of imaging [...]
Getting the “big” picture
Foto Art Camera Store, in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada, is in the process of having its store exterior transformed by mural artists Jason Gateman and Tyson Merriam. The large mural, which is to wrap around the three walls on the rear of the store, will be a giant tribute to historic and collectible cameras, lenses [...]
New store concept for Black’s
According to a story in Canada’s Marketnews, Black Photo Corp., headquartered in Markham, Ontario, launched a new store concept in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, in July, with a second store, in Toronto, Ontario, following suit. The concept includes a new interactive studio space where customers can relax and develop personalized photo-based projects, aided by a [...]
Former HP employee’s new Print Café featured in article
The Coloradoan ran an article about a new business opening this week in Fort Collins, Colo., called The Print Café, which owner Denise Raffel-Melli describes as a “same-day, in-town Shutterfly or Snapfish,” where consumers may make photo books, posters, calendars and other projects with their images. Raffel-Melli worked for HP for 21 years before being [...]
Pixels packs a punch, from PMA magazine
Undaunted by the challenges, a photographer-turned-retailer has customers clamoring Many people probably would not consider the late 2000s an ideal time to become a photo retailer. Frank Marrot isn’t among them. With a background as a commercial advertising photographer, Marrot had intended to open a studio – both for his own use and to rent [...]
