National School Picture Day is Sept. 8 Events 

National School Picture Day is Sept. 8

GaryPageau
The national trade association for school photography and yearbooks, School Photographers of America (SPOA) announced National School Picture Day is Sept. 8, 2022. This year, the celebration is even more impressive as it commemorates the 100th anniversary of the school picture tradition. “Each year approximately 53 million students have their smiles captured through the craft of school photography,” says David... Read More
Futuresource: Western European photo printing market to grow +22% from 2021 to 2026 Market research News 

Futuresource: Western European photo printing market to grow +22% from 2021 to 2026

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  Futuresource Consulting recently published the annual Western Europe top-6 markets Photo Output (Printing) Market Reports (covering B2C (consumer-ordered) Photo Prints, Photobooks and Photo-Merchandise (photo calendars, cards, wall décor and gifts) for Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK). According to a LinkedIn post from Jeremy Wills, “2022 market value is set to rise by nearly +10% on 2020 levels, and,... Read More
B&H Photo, Lindblad Expeditions announces the OPTIC West Conference News 

B&H Photo, Lindblad Expeditions announces the OPTIC West Conference

GaryPageau
OPTIC is the Outdoor, Photography-Video, Travel Imaging Conference, now in its 8th year, featuring two days of presentations on two stages, a large photo and technology trade expo, critiques, contests, photo creation stations, community, and even a whale watching mini-photo expedition! Attend in-person or virtually with the Main and Expo stages being livestreamed. David Brommer, OPTIC West MC and Producer stated,... Read More
NRF: Growth has slowed but recession indicators disagree News 

NRF: Growth has slowed but recession indicators disagree

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U.S. economic growth has slowed, but it still isn’t clear if the nation is in a recession, said National Retail Federation Chief Economist Jack Kleinhenz. “As we come to the end of the summer, economic indicators are signaling an unsteady U.S. expansion in the face of several headwinds,” Kleinhenz said, noting ongoing inflation, Federal Reserve interest rate hikes, the volatile... Read More
Creating the digital inkjet printing market, with John Doe, JONDO Feature Marketing New Products Podcasts 

Creating the digital inkjet printing market, with John Doe, JONDO

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Gary Pageau of the Dead Pixels Society talks with John Doe, the owner of JONDO. In this interview, Doe talks about the early days of high-quality digital inkjet printing, inventing “giclee,” and bringing digital photography into fine-art printing. JONDO is a print-on-demand mass manufacturer of home decor and art products with standardized production facilities. The company has more than 30 years of experience making high-quality... Read More
Belt-tightening at Snap leading to layoffs, grounds Pixy drone News 

Belt-tightening at Snap leading to layoffs, grounds Pixy drone

GaryPageau
Snap management is making some difficult choices in the wake of disappointing financial results. Sandwiched between the short video war between Instagram and TikTok, “Camea company” Snap is reportedly undergoing cost-cutting measures, including the cancellation of its Pixy personal selfie drone. The $230 Pixy drone, while still available on the Snap website, was introduced at the end of April during... Read More
Amaze partners with Picsart to provide photo editing tools inside its platform Partnerships 

Amaze partners with Picsart to provide photo editing tools inside its platform

GaryPageau
Amaze, an intuitive, no-code, mobile landing page design platform, announced a partnership with Picsart, enabling Amaze to integrate powerful photo and video editing tools and design tools into its Amaze platform, which will allow users to create projects faster and customize images for their landing pages, inside Amaze. Users can now access three of Picsart’s powerful editing tools on Amaze,... Read More
IDC: Global smartphone shipments expected to decline 6.5% in 2022 Market research 

IDC: Global smartphone shipments expected to decline 6.5% in 2022

GaryPageau
According to the latest International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker forecast, shipments of smartphones will decline 6.5% to 1.27 billion units in 2022. The decline is due to record-breaking inflation, geopolitical tensions, and other macroeconomic challenges that have significantly dampened consumer demand. As a result, the latest forecast figures represent a reduction of three percentage points from previous... Read More
Tamron developing first Nikon Z-mount lens New Products 

Tamron developing first Nikon Z-mount lens

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Tamron announces the development of the 70-300mm F/4.5-6.3 Di III RXD (Model A047), a Nikon Z-mount system compatible telephoto zoom lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras. The lens is expected to ship this fall and pricing was not announced. Tamron says the 70-300mm F4.5-6.3 telephoto zoom lens combines the world’s smallest size and lightest weight together with high image quality based... Read More
Printful adds 3D product models for eCommerce stores New Products 

Printful adds 3D product models for eCommerce stores

GaryPageau
Printful has added 3D product models for eCommerce stores integrated with Shopify. This makes Printful the first print-on-demand service to provide this augmented reality (AR) feature to its merchants, the company claims. To be at the forefront of innovation and set new industry trends, Printful has now implemented Shopify’s 3D product model feature and become the first print-on-demand company to... Read More
Mitchell Press to install first Landa Nanographic Printing Press in Canada News 

Mitchell Press to install first Landa Nanographic Printing Press in Canada

GaryPageau
Mitchell Press Ltd., of Burnaby, British Columbia, which is one of the largest print and visual communication providers in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest, will be home to the first Landa Nanographic Printing Press in Canada. The Landa S10P Nanographic Printing Press from Landa Digital offers reproduction of up to 96 percent of Pantone colors, 6,500 sheets per hour... Read More
Fiverr Partners with Shutterstock to integrate licensed assets Partnerships 

Fiverr Partners with Shutterstock to integrate licensed assets

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Fiverr International Ltd. announced a partnership with Shutterstock to integrate its vast content of licensed assets on its platform. The integration will provide freelancers who offer digital services on Fiverr instant and easy access to millions of licensed assets for commercial use. “High-quality, licensed assets are essential for many services offered on Fiverr, and we have already seen freelancers on... Read More
Mach 21 announces new Colenta film machine program News 

Mach 21 announces new Colenta film machine program

GaryPageau
At the recent IPIC conference, one of the main topics of conversation was the resurgence in the film-processing business. With the boom in business, however, is ongoing concern about the availability of parts and consumables for film processing. To help address that need, Manny Parks, of Pro Image Photo in New York, has added the distribution of Colenta Labortechnik film-processing equipment... Read More