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Canon launches ProCare service program for Colorado customers News 

Canon launches ProCare service program for Colorado customers

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Canon Solutions America, Inc. launched its new ProCare after-sales service program, designed for users of the Canon Colorado roll-to-roll wide format printer series. This new program enables Colorado 1650 owners to benefit from maximizing uptime through access to highly trained technicians and nationwide coverage, for increased productivity from minimal downtime. ProCare contracts are available for three, four, or five years,... Read More
“Miniscule” Fujifilm Velvia 100 components lead to cancellation by EPA News 

“Miniscule” Fujifilm Velvia 100 components lead to cancellation by EPA

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Fujifilm Holdings is pulling Velvia 100 slide film from the market, citing toxic chemicals within its layers. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) decreed a chemical within Fujifilm Velvia 100, Phenol, Isopropylated Phosphate, is a carcinogen. Fujifilm has Sept. 5, 2021, to stop production of Fujifilm Velvia 100 in 35mm, 120, and large format. The full wording of Fujifilm’s announcement... Read More
Canva announces partnerships with Linktree, Staples Canada and Sprout Social News 

Canva announces partnerships with Linktree, Staples Canada and Sprout Social

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Visual communications and graphics platform Canva announced strategic partnerships with Linktree, Staples Canada, and Sprout Social. More than 55 million people in 190+ countries use Canva to design with ease and collaborate at scale “Canva empowers our community to start inspired, design with ease and achieve their goals, but we can’t do it alone. Launching our new partnerships with Linktree, Staples Canada and Sprout... Read More
X-Rite partners with Calibrite for color measurement products News 

X-Rite partners with Calibrite for color measurement products

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X-Rite Inc. and Calibrite announce their partnership to transition the X-Rite photo and video portfolio to Calibrite, a newly formed company dedicated to servicing the color management needs of the photo, video, and content creation markets, according to a press release. Calibrite will collaborate with X-Rite on product development and take direct global control of the packaging, distribution, and marketing... Read More
Fujifilm trimming photo product production in Greenwood plant News 

Fujifilm trimming photo product production in Greenwood plant

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Fujifilm North America advised employees at its Greenwood, S.C., manufacturing plant as part of a consolidation, FUJIFILM Manufacturing USA Inc. will close four Greenwood plants by September 2022, eliminating about 400 positions. The company said the work would move to other Fujifilm facilities and to third parties, according to the Greenwood Index-Journal. The 500-acre complex has been in operation in... Read More
USPS reports improved delivery performance in third quarter News 

USPS reports improved delivery performance in third quarter

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The U.S. Postal Service provided updated third-quarter service performance data through the week of June 25th which shows consistent and improved delivery performance across all First-Class, Marketing and Periodical mail categories since the second quarter, the agency said. Performance numbers below include the weeks of April 1 through June 25: First-Class Mail: 87.5 percent of First-Class Mail delivered on time... Read More
NRF economist says recovery is a sure thing News 

NRF economist says recovery is a sure thing

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As retailers head into the second half of 2021, the “great uncertainty” that clouded the nation’s economic outlook earlier in the year has transformed into evidence of an unprecedented recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, said Jack Kleinhenz, chief economist, National Retail Federation (NRF). “It has become clear the U.S. economy and retail sales are growing far faster and more steadily... Read More
Light-shaping company Profoto goes public Earnings reports News 

Light-shaping company Profoto goes public

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Longtime lighting company Profoto Holding AB went public on the NASDAQ in Stockholm July 1, under the ticker symbol “PRFO.” Profoto shares are offered to the public in Sweden and to institutional investors in Sweden and abroad. After a day of trading, the stock closed at 84 kr ($9.8 per share). With 40,000,000 shares outstanding, put Profoto’s market capitalization at... Read More
Imaging utility maker TechSmith moving to headquarters to East Lansing News 

Imaging utility maker TechSmith moving to headquarters to East Lansing

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Michigan-based imaging utility maker TechSmith announced the company is moving from its Okemo, MI, headquarters to Michigan State University’s campus, where MSU and the Michigan State University Foundation are partnering to develop a 62,500 square-foot, two-story office building in the south portion of Spartan Village for the company. The office building, under construction now, is located on approximately five acres... Read More
Quebec’s Urbanimmersive acquires three real estate photography agencies Acquisitions News 

Quebec’s Urbanimmersive acquires three real estate photography agencies

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Urbanimmersive Inc. announced the completion of the acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of real estate photography agencies EGP Technovirtuel Inc. and Graphique ID Solutions Inc. and all of the intangible assets of La Clique Mobile s.e.n.c. for an aggregated purchase price of $3.03M, including $1.77M payable in cash immediately, $100k payable in 100 days and $1.16 million payable through the... Read More
FASTSIGNS parent Propelled Brands buys salon franchisor News 

FASTSIGNS parent Propelled Brands buys salon franchisor

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As an indication the company is moving further away from its copyshop roots, Propelled Brands, the corporate umbrella of FASTSIGNS International. Inc., announced its acquisition of Suite Management Franchising, LLC, the parent company of MY SALON Suite and Salon Plaza®, two salon suite franchisors. Propelled Brands is the corporate umbrella of FASTSIGNS, SIGNWAVE, and NerdsToGo. “We are excited to welcome... Read More
Canon introduces RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM lens News 

Canon introduces RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM lens

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Canon U.S.A., Inc., announced the RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM lens bringing ultra-wide-angle coverage to full-frame EOS R-series users. The lens weighs just 1.2 lbs and accepts conventional, 77mm screw-in filters. This is especially noteworthy on a lens for full-frame cameras with 14mm ultra-wide coverage. Additionally, the lens’s close-focusing capability is exceptional for an ultra-wide zoom of its type. The... Read More
GoPro announces open API for HERO9 cam, updates for Quik News 

GoPro announces open API for HERO9 cam, updates for Quik

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GoPro announced “Open GoPro,” an open API initiative for third-party developers to integrate HERO9 Black into their own development efforts. Open GoPro is live for HERO9 Black starting today with the release of the camera firmware update v1.6 With Open GoPro, developers have API access to the following HERO9 Black features: Wireless Connectivity Camera Command and Control Camera Status Camera Preview SD Card Media Review and Transfer Demos and sample... Read More
Photo-Me International announces board changes News People on the Move 

Photo-Me International announces board changes

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Photo-Me International plc, the instant-service equipment group, announced four new appointments: Tania Crasnianski as an executive director, and Camille Claverie, René Proglio and Sigieri Diaz della Vittoria Pallavicini as non-executive directors. All appointments are effective immediately.   Crasnianski has been an independent legal adviser for the past seven years and prior to that held the role of Head of Global... Read More