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Gary Pageau is principal of InfoCircle LLC, continuing his marketing communications career. InfoCircle LLC is a marketing and communications consulting firm, specializing in business-to-business markets. For nearly 25 years, he was with PMA International, serving most recently as Publisher, Content Development and Strategic Initiatives. His primary responsibilities included overseeing the Association’s editorial department, marketing research unit, education and corporate relations department.

Video home tour requests soar nearly 500% in one week News 

Video home tour requests soar nearly 500% in one week

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Redfin, the technology-powered real-estate brokerage, saw a 494% increase in requests for agent-led video home tours last week. As of yesterday, 18.9% of tour requests from Redfin.com were video-chat tour requests, up from 0.2% at the beginning of March, a 94-fold increase. Other measures Redfin has taken to prepare for the coronavirus include: Three-dimensional scans of nearly every Redfin listing,... Read More
Jostens makes exclusive content available during COVID-19 outbreak News 

Jostens makes exclusive content available during COVID-19 outbreak

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Jostens announced it will be providing all students, parents, and educators more communication and distance learning activities due to COVID-19 through the public release of exclusive digital content and curriculum previously shared with customers only. Jostens is making its exclusive content available to the public for the next 30 days, pending further COVID-19 developments impacting schools. For students and parents,... Read More
Forever Inc. launches its AutoBook product New Products News 

Forever Inc. launches its AutoBook product

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Forever Inc., the Pittsburgh, Pa-based archival memory-keeping solution announced the release of its brand new print product, FOREVER  AutoBook. FOREVER AutoBook is just the newest way for clients to print their memories at FOREVER.com. With FOREVER AutoBook, clients click a button and have their online albums turned into photo books. Users can also individually select a series of photos from... Read More
Kornit Digital introduces NeoPigment Robusto Softener Solution New Products 

Kornit Digital introduces NeoPigment Robusto Softener Solution

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Textile printing technology provider Kornit Digital announced the release of the NeoPigment Robusto Softener solution for Presto, the company’s system for digital, pigment-based direct-to-fabric decoration. The solution provides a softer handfeel for digital, pigment-based printed items. “The new softener addresses the final sticking point we’ve encountered for high fashion and other markets considering a move to digital printing—and that’s the touch,... Read More
Gartner: 81% of CFOs intend to exceed contractual obligations during COVID-19 outbreak News 

Gartner: 81% of CFOs intend to exceed contractual obligations during COVID-19 outbreak

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A Gartner, Inc. cohort of 200 CFOs on March 17 revealed 81% intend to offer benefits to their hourly employees exceeding any contractual obligations during the coronavirus disruption. As many as one-third intend to offer full monetary compensation during the period. “Many view this as a good ethical gesture, and this is also about seeing the bigger picture and finding... Read More
Industry Notes for the week of March 21 People on the Move Tips and tricks 

Industry Notes for the week of March 21

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Tech trends Samsung begins mass production of fast storage Samsung Electronics has begun mass producing the industry’s first 512-gigabyte (GB) eUFS (embedded Universal Flash Storage) 3.1 for use in flagship smartphones. Delivering three times the write speed of the previous 512GB eUFS 3.0 mobile memory, Samsung’s new eUFS 3.1 breaks the 1GB/s performance threshold in smartphone storage. Perfect Corp.: Refashioning the... Read More
Editorial: The photo/imaging industry responds to COVID-19 News Opinion 

Editorial: The photo/imaging industry responds to COVID-19

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The 24-hour, non-stop coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic is inescapable. While we here at the Dead Pixels Society try to be apolitical and to focus on business-related issues and topics, it’s clear the pandemic is going to have wide-ranging effects and ramifications for the global industry. The mass cancelations and postponements of important photo and printing industry events, like photokina... Read More
Hartman: The most impactful potential improvement to photo print products is… Market research 

Hartman: The most impactful potential improvement to photo print products is…

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Researcher and Visual 1st conference co-chair Hans Hartman published findings from his recent  2020 Photo Print Product Survey showing consumers are more activated to print by speed than any other factor, including discovery and seeing printed samples. The 2020 Photo Print Product Survey surveyed respondents whose households had ordered photo print products in the last 12 months (“would they order more photo print... Read More
Tiger Group to auction surplus pro A/V gear from The Camera Division Events 

Tiger Group to auction surplus pro A/V gear from The Camera Division

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Tiger Group will hold an online-only auction on March 31 of excess pro-grade audiovisual gear from The Camera Division (TCD), the one-stop rental house formed in 2017 by the successful merger of The Camera House and Division Camera. The more 200-piece offering includes digital and video cameras, zoom lenses, lighting, matte boxes, monitors, jib arms, sliders, tripods, camera accessories, media, filters, and... Read More
Minuteman Press expands conversion program News 

Minuteman Press expands conversion program

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Minuteman Press International is expanding its conversion program that helps independent printers sell their printing business and secure an exit strategy. Over the past 36 months, Minuteman Press has assisted over 150 independent print center owners sell their business. Minuteman Press International claims it has the unique ability to sell independent print shops to a wider pool of qualified buyers. The... Read More
ProGrade Digital debuts Thunderbolt 3 CFexpress and XQD reader and a dual-slot CFexpress and SDXC reader New Products 

ProGrade Digital debuts Thunderbolt 3 CFexpress and XQD reader and a dual-slot CFexpress and SDXC reader

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ProGrade Digital announced two card readers. The PG04 is a Thunderbolt 3 reader for CFexpress Type B and XQD cards that is capable of transferring data at speeds up to 40Gb/s (5GB/s). This enables you to take full advantage of the read speeds of your CFexpress cards to create a fast and efficient workflow. The PG05.5 is a replacement for... Read More
Google debuts Camera app for Android (Go edition) Updates 

Google debuts Camera app for Android (Go edition)

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Google has updated the Camera app for its Android (Go Edition) operating system for developing markets. The new Camera Go app from Google has a Portrait Mode to give your photos a professional look by focusing on your subject. It’s built for first-time smartphone users with a clean and simple interface. For those markets where bandwidth and storage are at... Read More
Skylum adds AI Augmented Sky capabilities to Luminar 4.2 News Updates 

Skylum adds AI Augmented Sky capabilities to Luminar 4.2

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Skylum announced the latest free update for its flagship product, Luminar, version 4.2, which includes a new AI Augmented Sky feature. The new tool lets photographers place different objects directly on the sky, enabling creatives to make either a realistic landscape or transform it into something straight out of a fairy tale, the company says. In the Creative tab inside... Read More
Easy Cut Studio releases Version 5 with more cutter support and 64-bit compatibility Updates 

Easy Cut Studio releases Version 5 with more cutter support and 64-bit compatibility

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EasyCut introduced Easy Cut Studio version 5, a compatibility update to the company’s sign-making solution with more enhanced functions, Support for more vinyl cutting plotters, full 64-bit compatibility, macOS Catalina compatibility, and much more. Easy Cut Studio is designed and engineered to be the total solution for any sign-making business. The software features advanced graphics editor, vectorization tool, and all... Read More