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Shutterfly buying more than 60 HP Indigo digital presses News 

Shutterfly buying more than 60 HP Indigo digital presses

HP Inc. announced one of its biggest customers, photo personalization giant Shutterfly, has embarked on a massive expansion of its digital press fleet with the acquisition of more than 60 new HP Indigo Digital Presses. HP referred to the deal as “the largest single customer order to date for the HP Graphics business.” The rollout includes B2-sized HP Indigo 100K... Read More
Nikon to cut 20% of workforce News 

Nikon to cut 20% of workforce

Japan’s Nikon Inc. will cut more than 2,000 production workers outside of Japan by March, 2022, and shift production to Thailand in an effort to staunch financial losses. Japan’s Nikkei newspaper reports further states Nikon is attempting to bring the companies overhead in line with sales. The company will continue to make LiDAR sensors in Japan. “It’s important to fit... Read More
Easy Cut Studio 5 is now available for KASA, UKCutter, VEVOR, SSK, Helo and OmniSign Plus cutters News Updates 

Easy Cut Studio 5 is now available for KASA, UKCutter, VEVOR, SSK, Helo and OmniSign Plus cutters

EasyCut Studio announces its updated version of Easy Cut Studio version 5.007 extends the capabilities of Easy Cut Studio by supporting  KASA, UKCutter SMURF, VEVOR, Marsh Stencil Express, SSK Designtech 60, Helo HSP and OmniSign Plus cutters. The new version also provides many optimizations and improvements, and even better performance than before, the company claims. Manufacturers supported include, Roland, USCutter, Mutoh,... Read More
Sony opens registration for “Creative Space” online event Events News 

Sony opens registration for “Creative Space” online event

Sony Electronics Inc. opened registration for the second annual “Creative Space” digital event open to all levels of photographers, videographers and all other forms of imaging enthusiasts. The free Dec. 5-6 event offers the opportunity for participants to learn from and connect with some of the imaging industry’s biggest names, offering many opportunities to expand their own individual network and... Read More
Layflat.com is a new company offering premium layflat bookbinding systems News 

Layflat.com is a new company offering premium layflat bookbinding systems

Layflat.com, is a new company based in Meggen, Switzerland, offering advanced automated bookbinding systems. The company says it is “founded on the principle of establishing long-term relationships with customers. CEO Djawad Khorosh says he invested almost a year to select and evaluate the best international team members before officially launching the company in October 2020. “We worked closely with all... Read More
Shutterfly breaks “Let Good Fly” holiday campaign Marketing News 

Shutterfly breaks “Let Good Fly” holiday campaign

Leading consumer photo personalization site Shutterfly premiered its “Let Good Fly” 2020 holiday ad campaign this week. Rather than avoid the realities of a less-than-desirable pandemic year, the light-hearted spot “Let the good fly” confronts it head on. Created by long-time ad agency Argonaut, the spot features various characters showing how they coped with 2020, including a bread-baking mom, a... Read More
GotPhoto releases QuickComposite and holiday sales content News 

GotPhoto releases QuickComposite and holiday sales content

GotPhoto Inc., the leading workflow platform for volume school photographers, has released holiday sales content and a new composite software to help photographers generate group photos. GotPhoto has prepared guides, webinars, email templates, and much more to help the photographer create extra holiday revenue. The resources build on GotPhoto’s existing strategies begun during the COVID-19 crisis. The company led the... Read More
Motif launches Motif 2.0 for iOS News Updates 

Motif launches Motif 2.0 for iOS

Motif, the personalized photo project app from RR Donnelly, launch the redesigned iOS app, Motif 2.0, featuring major upgrades for Motif users on an iPhone and iPad. Most notably, Motif 2.0 for iOS features a redesigned project editing experience created to make the process of designing photo books and calendars even more intuitive, saving users time as the holiday gifting... Read More
Fuji Xerox to change name to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. in April 2021 News 

Fuji Xerox to change name to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. in April 2021

Fuji Xerox announced its Asia Pacific operations will change to the Fujifilm brand with the changing of Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. corporate name to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. on April 2021. This change is brought forth based on the company’s decision to end the Technology Agreement with Xerox Corp. on the agreement’s expiration date, March 31, 2021. The Technology Agreement provides for... Read More
Fujfiilm, Hasselblad, Nikon, Panasonic release software and firmware updates News SDKs and APIs Updates 

Fujfiilm, Hasselblad, Nikon, Panasonic release software and firmware updates

Fujifilm North America debuted firmware updates for the X-T3 and the X-H1. The X-T3 update will improve the autofocusing performance of the X-T3 to the same level as the FUJIFILM X-T4, the company said, while the X-H1 update is a bug fix. In other Fujfiilm news, for a limited time, registered owners of FUJIFILM X Series or GFX System digital cameras and... Read More