Fujifilm announces production presses, specialty color capabilities Events New Products 

Fujifilm announces production presses, specialty color capabilities

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Fujifilm Group announced the global launch of four mid-range production presses in the Revoria Press series. The Revoria Press EC2100S and Revoria Press SC285S are equipped with a specialty toner station in addition to the four-color toners, enabling five-color printing in one pass. The Revoria Press  EC2100 and Revoria Press SC285 are four-colour presses. All four products are compact in... Read More
Flam raises $4.5 million pre-Series A funding News 

Flam raises $4.5 million pre-Series A funding

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YourStory.com reports Flam, the AI-powered mixed reality (MR) publishing platform, has raised $4.5 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by TurboStart, Twin Ventures, Alphatron Capital, along with other angel investors and family offices. Other existing backers including San Francisco-based Inventus Capital Partners, SVQ, and 9Unicorns also participated in the round. The company said the raised funds will be... Read More
ME Group divests Sempa in strategic shift to core operations News 

ME Group divests Sempa in strategic shift to core operations

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ME Group, a leader in instant-service equipment formerly known as Photo-Me International, has announced the divestiture of its subsidiary, Sempa, to Food Machine Invest, a French entity. The transaction, completed on May 20, 2024, saw ME Group GSS relinquish its entire stake in Sempa for a cash sum of €4.6 million. Acquired in 2019, Sempa is the leader in professional... Read More
Taopix to launch online editor, desktop editor at Drupa Events New Products 

Taopix to launch online editor, desktop editor at Drupa

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Taopix announced its re-branding and the launch of a new suite of products at Drupa 2024, the world’s leading trade fair for print technologies. Taopix has undergone a visual transformation, aligning its brand identity with its continuous commitment to innovation and customer-centric solutions, the company said, adding that the “re-branding represents Taopix’s evolution as a forward-thinking company poised to continue... Read More
Mastering Efficiency and Profitability in Sports Photography: Bob Kenward’s Journey to Success Marketing News Podcasts 

Mastering Efficiency and Profitability in Sports Photography: Bob Kenward’s Journey to Success

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Discover the transformative journey of Bob Kenward from Fluvanna Sports Photography as he details his shift from action sports to mastering team and individual portraits. In a candid conversation, Kenward reveals the pivotal moments that turned his initial skepticism of team photos into a profitable niche focusing on smaller leagues, and how composite photography became a game-changer for his business. Listen as we uncover... Read More
Pixelmator updates Photomator, Pixelmator Pro Updates 

Pixelmator updates Photomator, Pixelmator Pro

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Pixelmator announced a completely redesigned export feature on Photomator for Mac. This update adds export preview, an easy-to-use watermarking tool for protecting photos, and Quick Look integration for instant full-size previews and image sharing. Users will see an export preview in the export settings, allowing them to quickly view photos before exporting them. This eliminates the need to repeatedly export,... Read More
Watershed, Canva announce agreement to reduce supply chain emissions Partnerships 

Watershed, Canva announce agreement to reduce supply chain emissions

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Watershed, the enterprise sustainability platform, and Canva announced a Virtual Power Purchase Agreement (VPPA) to reduce Canva’s scope 3 emissions. The program is co-funded by the largest Canva Print suppliers, including RPI Print, Taylor, Blooming Color, Brook & Whittle, and Digital on Demand, and will build a network of new community solar projects in Illinois while reducing the emissions of these suppliers. The network of solar projects... Read More
Canva unveils new workplace products at Canva Create News 

Canva unveils new workplace products at Canva Create

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At its first international Canva Create event in Los Angeles last week, debuted the platform’s biggest overhaul in a decade, alongside a range of new workplace products and services poised to redefine the way millions of people work. “We are excited to introduce a revamped Canva experience and a suite of new products to empower every organisation to design,” said Melanie Perkins,... Read More
Condé Systems assets going to auction June 4 Acquisitions News 

Condé Systems assets going to auction June 4

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Hyperams LLC, Rolling Meadows, Ill, has announced a June 4 online auction for the assets of dye-sublimation products distributor Condé Systems, Inc., which announced on its Facebook page the company would be closing in April. In November 2022, the company announced the transition to an employee-owned company, with the pending retirement of David Gross, president. According to the announcement from... Read More
Panasonic launches LUMIX S9 compact full-frame mirrorless camera New Products 

Panasonic launches LUMIX S9 compact full-frame mirrorless camera

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Panasonic announced the LUMIX S9, the smallest and lightest full-frame mirrorless camera in the LUMIX S Series. Available in four colorways–Jet Black, Crimson Red, Dark Olive and Classical Blue–the LUMIX S9 is for content creators.  The approximately 24.2-megapixel full-frame CMOS sensor is equivalent to that of the LUMIX S5II, and the latest engine captures content in rich detail with natural... Read More
Photobook.ai announces easy-to-integrate progressive web app New Products Updates 

Photobook.ai announces easy-to-integrate progressive web app

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Photobook.ai announced its AI-powered photo book printing tech is now now accessible as a Progressive Web App (PWA), allowing integration two API calls. The integration allows the addition of the Photobook.ai photobook designer function to existing websites, like photo galleries and wedding sites. The Photobook.ai PWA uses the same back-end dashboard platform as the white-label native apps.  All print-job orders... Read More
Australia’s Academy Photography Australia goes into liquidation, stranding 26 schools News 

Australia’s Academy Photography Australia goes into liquidation, stranding 26 schools

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According to numerous published reports, a leading Australia volume photography company, Academy Photography Australia, has gone into liquidation, leaving 26 schools left with undelivered portraits that were paid for.  Liquidators were appointed for the family-owned Academy Photography Australia late on Friday, May 2024.  The abrupt closure also affects the upcoming Picture Day for 26 other Western Australian schools. In an... Read More
Adobe unveils Firefly-powered generative remove in Lightroom News Updates 

Adobe unveils Firefly-powered generative remove in Lightroom

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Adobe unveiled Generative Remove in Adobe Lightroom, bringing Adobe Firefly directly into everyday photo editing workflows across Lightroom mobile, web and desktop surfaces. Generative Remove is Lightroom’s most powerful remove tool yet, giving everyone the power to remove unwanted objects from any photo non-destructively in a single click by intelligently matching the removed area with pixel perfect generations for high-quality, realistic and... Read More