PMA Data Watch: The optimal retail print market strategy
Photo printing through retail and online sources is expected to remain flat in 2010, however, growth prospects return in 2011. The main source of growth for retail and online printing businesses will be share gain against home printing methods as opposed to the total print market growing. Home printers are the most economical option for [...]
PMA Data Watch: Retail printing among U.S. households
According to the PMA 2010 U.S. Camera/Camcorder Digital Imaging Survey, 61 percent of digital camera owners made paper prints in 2009. U.S. households that made prints were most likely to print less than 10 percent of the pictures they saved, stored or kept. Fifty-four percent of printing households made prints away from home, either by [...]
HP “prints” in 3D — solid plastic models
“There are millions of 3D designers using 2D printers who are ready to bring their designs to life in 3D,” HP says — and so the leading 2D printer company partnered with the leading solid 3D print maker to release HP-branded Designjet 3D systems in Europe. That partner company is Stratasys. It says product designers, [...]
Lucidiom “Pockets” Pics, improves online service for retailers
Photo retailers looking to replicate the in-store kiosk experience for their online customers can turn to Photo Finale 7, the updated white-label web service from Lucidiom. “Photo Finale offers all the whimsy, creativity and universal appeal needed for retailers to thrive in today’s social picturing world,” the company says. “We’ve completely overhauled the creative workflow [...]
PMA Data Watch: Printing behavior of U.S. households
According to the PMA 2009 U.S. Camera/Camcorder Digital Imaging Survey, 61 percent of digital camera households in U.S. made paper prints from their digital images in 2008. This is drop compared to the percentage of households making paper prints in the few years prior, with the exception of 2007. Forty-five percent of total U.S. households [...]
PMA Monthly Printing and Camera Trends Report – November
JACKSON, Mich. – PMA – The Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations announces the availability of the PMA Monthly Printing and Camera Trends Report to aid firms in making business decisions. The report is a monthly service to help members gain timely insight into consumer printing and camera purchasing behaviors. PMA also translates the camera sales [...]
Akvis Magnifies images to high resolution
Software developer Akvis says its Magnifier v.3 enlarges digital pictures to super-high resolution, “producing stunning enlargements and poster-size prints, without visible loss in quality.” The program’s photo resizing algorithms keep edges smooth, sharp and clearly defined, while improving image appearance by removing unwanted noise and compression artifacts, the company says. The $129 program is available [...]
Kyocera speeds printing with brighter LED
Kyocera claims its developed the world’s fastest electrophotographic printing, at 180m/min, at a high 1200 dpi resolution. Theoretically, the printer can churn out more than 1,000 sheets of standard A4 size paper per minute, the company says. It also consumes just a quarter of the power of its predecessors operating at the same printing speed. [...]
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 [...]
