Columns By Kim Brady

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Printing Press: Personalized Photo Print Gifts for Any Occasion

Imagine almost any popular gift—jewelry, clothing, home décor, even food—and there’s a good chance that someone, somewhere has figured out how to enhance it...
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Printing Press: The Photo Booth Market Surges as Social Scenes Expand

Photo booth market size is set to grow at a 16% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) from 2021 to 2027. This is according to...
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Printing Press: Touchless Technology in a Post-Pandemic World

The Covid pandemic impacted the lives of a worldwide population. It not only changed the way people interact with one another but also how...
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Printing Press: Retail Photo Printing in Post-Pandemic America

Ask any market analyst what aspect of business development was most critical to surviving the economic effects of Covid-19, retail photo printing or otherwise,...
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Promotional Calendars for Business Clients Offer Profit Opportunities

Year after year, photo calendars remain one of the most popular personalized gifts sold during the holiday season and beyond. When promoting calendar sales...
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Celebrate Holiday Photo Gift Buying Trends

As we head into the busiest sales season of the year, it’s important to look at new photo products and holiday photo gift buying...
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Printing Press: Preserving the Best Moments of Summer

This summer brought together more families than arguably any other period of time in modern history. Heads of households became full-time teachers, activities directors...
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Printing Press Spotlight: Peleman Industries—Your Vision Is Our Inspiration

Decades of innovation and environmental commitment have made Peleman Industries one of the most successful manufacturers of binding and photo display products in the...
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Printing Press: Compact Printers Bring Speed & Efficiency to Photo Booth Imaging

Photo booth imaging has found a new following among millennial buyers—76 million influential consumers who are contributing to recent surges in photo print sales....
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Printing Press: Photo Décor Trends for the Home

Wall portraits remain the most visible and dramatic way to decorate a home with special memories. Metal, canvas, acrylic and paper are all popular...
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Printing Press: Millennials Inherit a Love for Family Photos

Exactly who are millennials? While exact dates vary depending on the source, millennials are the children of baby boomers born between 1980 and 1996....
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Printing Press: Photo Retouching and Restoration for the Consumer Market

Having transitioned from “spotting” prints and negatives in the 1970s to using Photoshop in the 1990s, it was apparent to photographers of my generation...
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Printing Press: Art, Tech & Photography = Unique Gifts for Pet Lovers

The photo gift industry is constantly growing, producing unique memory products to help people celebrate their loved ones, including those family members with four...
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Printing Press: Genealogy Stirs a Growing Market in Photo Preservation

As the world’s population becomes more homogeneous, its citizens are developing a renewed interest in their ancestral roots. Genealogy websites like ancestry.com and WikiTree,...
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Printing Press: Minilabs Adapt to Printing Needs

When I started writing for the photo industry back in 1980, the concept of one-hour film processing and printing was just emerging. Chemical-based minilabs...
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Printing Press: Turn Hot Summer Days into Cool Photo Displays

How will your customers share their photographic memories from this year’s summer vacation? Will they order a photo calendar, collage poster or photo book...
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Printing Press: Memorable, Funny & Cool Photo Gifts for Tweens

Are your customers ever faced with the dilemma of selecting a gift for someone who’s grown beyond toys but isn’t quite ready for adult...
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Printing Press: Preserve More Memories with Photo Collages and Gifts

“Life is a collage of moments, and the most memorable ones are meant to be shared,” says Brittany Norris, brand marketing manager at CanvasPop.com....
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Printing Press: Wide-Format Printers

Commercial photo printing, whether for the consumer or professional markets, relies on the sale of low-cost, high-quality products that can be sold with a...
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Printing Press: Event Printers Bring Image Fulfillment On-Site

Today, event printers provide a wide range and variety of on-site image fulfillment, regardless of the event. Event photography has been a staple of...
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Printing Press: Unforgettable Wedding Albums to Cherish for a Lifetime

“Every bride needs her dress and every wedding needs its album,” writes Eugene Nagawieki, marketing and content specialist at nPhoto Lab, an album manufacturer...
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Printing Press: High-Tech to Basic Photo Book Printing

Just like every other printing technology, photo book printing has undergone dramatic changes in the digital age. In the 1960s, when Polaroid prints were...
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Printing Press: Consumer Portraits Printed in Three Dimensions

How would you like to offer your customers a full-color 3D figurine of their 10-year-old daughter performing a pliè in her ballet costume? Or...
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Printing Press: Promoting a Professionally Printed Wall Art Gallery

Creative photo galleries are all the rage for wall art displays this year. Pinterest, Shutterfly and other Internet resources are providing hundreds of ideas...
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Printing Press: Photo Jewelry Is More Beautiful Than Ever

Advanced techniques in photo jewelry printing and engraving provide exciting new opportunities for personalized gifts and family heirlooms. Suppliers offer everything from waterproof photographic...
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Printing Press: Traditional Holiday Cards & Social Media Join Forces

As sharing on social media continues to grow in popularity, one might expect the volume of holiday cards and letters passing through the post...
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Printing Press: Preserving Travel Memories in Print

After spending two weeks in Thailand with my son in 2003, I searched for a creative way to share with our family and friends...
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Printing Press: Kiosks, Printers & Minilabs Meet the Challenges of the Digital Photo Revolution

Technavio, a market research company focused on new and emerging technologies, predicts continued growth in the photo kiosks market. The company estimates the market will...
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Photo Booths Are the New Event Entertainment

Since the first coin-operated machine delivered ferrotype prints to attendees of the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris, consumers have been drawn to the novelty...
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Photo Printing Is on the Rise

Digital photography is a worldwide phenomenon. Smartphones, social media and consumers’ appetite for visual communication are all driving the demand for more images. The...

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