The holiday season’s plunge in the price of Blu-ray players seemed to have slowed to a gentle downward meander in the first weeks of the new year – that is, until last week’s dive. As note in our recent press release , the PriceSCAN Blu-ray Player Index fell three percent last week as compared to a 0.7% loss for the prior days of 2010
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Blue Light Special On Blu-ray
You don’t have to travel the world to shoot images remarkable enough to sell. Gifted photographers can find visually powerful scenes without wandering far from their own backyards. Just ask LexJet customer Jeff Rogers
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Photo Book Presents Uncommon View of the Commonwealth of Kentucky
By Eileen Fritsch At PhotoPlus Expo last October, I sat in on an Epson-sponsored session in which John Paul Caponigro attempted to explain everything you need to know about inkjet printing in an intense, two-hour session. He covered an awful lot of valuable information, including the importance of printing your work and why digital printing is
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John Caponigro’s New DVD Explains Fine Art Digital Printing
Professional Photographers of America (PPA) is inviting members of the public to come view 2,300 of the world’s best photographs in the International Print Exhibit that will be held in conjunction with Imaging USA Conference and Trade Show Jan. 10-12 at the Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center in Nashville, TN
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More than 2,000 Outstanding Photos to Be Exhibited in Nashville Jan. 10-12
A well-crafted surfboard is a work of art—especially when it’s embellished with images that evoke the awesome power and beauty of nature that surfers experience while riding the waves. That’s why surfer/artist/photographer/musician Kem McNair of New Smyrna Beach FL came up with the idea of creating limited-edition Surf Artboards.
Hanging a picture on a wall can take on a whole new meaning when the image is supersized, printed in panels on a wallcovering material, and installed by a professional paperhanger. In a previous post on this blog LexJet showed an example of a restaurant mural that photographer Norman Gilbert had created for the entrance of
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LexJet’s New Inkjet-Printable Materials for Custom Wallcoverings
Following two months of relative price stability, GPS prices are ending the holiday shopping season by taking a dive. And at least part of the reason mybe right on your phone. Toward the end of October we noted a sharp decline in GPS prices following the end of government subsidies for auto trade-ins (“ With “Cash For Clunker’s” End, Lower GPS Prices ”).
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Are Smartphones Driving Down Stand-Alone GPS Prices?
Printoolz.com ( http://www.printoolz.com ) has compiled some great year-end offers from some of the top software makers. The offers include 40% off Tribal Sketch, 33% off RealVue 3D Desktop or Server, Free mini-class in Adobe Creative Suite, Chance to win a disk full of royalty free stock photos, 20% off Markzware products, 10% of CopyFlow Gold, 10% off Quite Imposing Plus, 10% off MadetoPrint XT for Quark or Plug-in for InDesign, 10% off PDF Toolbox 4, 10% off Meadows Batch Print for Quark, 10% off Batch Output for InDesign, 10% off Barcode Maker for InDesign, Free InData or XData with purchase of InCatalog or XCatalog $400 value. Free one year support on SeeFile with purchase (50% off support for Bureau or Corporate Version): up to $497.50 value.
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Year-End Specials on Print Production Software Compiled
In a television retail universe characterized by soft demand and softer prices, big screen plasmas seemed almost uniquely immune to sharp discounting; that is, until now. As noted in our press release this week, the PriceSCAN Plasma Television 60 Inch+ Index has now given back all its gains from an 11% price spike back in the first half of August
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Now, For Many (But Not All) Plasmas, The Bigger They Are, The Harder They Fall
If you are planning to visit Washington, DC anytime between now and the end of March, consider visiting the National Geographic Museum to check out an amazing exhibit entitled “Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor.” The reason we’re talking about it here is because the National Geographic Imaging Department used an Espon Stylus
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Setting the Stage for a Major Exhibition at the National Geographic Museum
A previous post on this blog talked about Clearcoating Inkjet Photo and Art Prints and LexJet’s Sunset Gloss and Sunset Satin Coatings. It was noted that LexJet Sunset Coatings can be applied with either a spray gun or foam roller. Below are a few tips for using a foam roller to apply a smooth, even coating. Note that
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Using a Foam Roller to Apply Sunset Coatings to Inkjet Prints on Canvas
While many high-tech goods this year have seen more than precipitous price drops, one stalwart of price stability has been twelve megapixel digital cameras – that is, until now. I noted back in June that prices of these higher resolution digital cameras were showing remarkable strength (see “ State Of The Art Digital Camera Prices Show Staying Power ”). And indeed, that stability persisted: from October 2008 to October 2009 we saw only a 2% decline in our PriceSCAN 12 Megapixel Digital Camera Index .
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At Last, A Twelve Megapixel Snapshot Of A Price Cut
By Dustin Flowers The newest issue of LexJet’s In Focus newsletter shines the Artist Spotlight on one of my customers, photographer and master printer Bob Tursack of Brilliant Studio and Brilliant Graphics in Exton, PA (near Philadelphia). Brilliant Studio provides top-quality printmaking in the broadest sense of the word. While Bob can reproduce art with the utmost
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Brilliant Studio Continues the Tradition of Collaborative Printmaking
Now more than ever, photography careers are shaped by how quickly and clearly you can recognize emerging markets for images. Just ask Vincent Goetz, who recently resumed his photography career after taking a 30-year hiatus from the craft. Like many of his peers, Goetz developed an interest in photography in high school, bought a lot of
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Vincent Goetz Brings a Painterly Feel to Abstract Photography
Whether you’re brand-new to the photography business or seeking to diversify into new markets, you can find plenty of ideas and inspiration at one of the national (or international!) photography conferences planned in 2010. Just as it makes sense to expand your photography business in new directions, each of these conferences has been steadily diversifying their
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2010 Photography Conferences for New and Established Pros
At this time of year, most retail-store windows are brimming with gift ideas, Santa scenes, and/or brightly colored signs and posters announcing holiday sales and promotions. The creative team at Potthast Studios in Winter Haven, FL has opted to take a less commercial approach to decorating their windows for the busy holiday season. At the suggestion
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Celebrating the Christmas Story with Beautiful Life-Size Photo Prints
We’ve been observing considerable price declines for many flat-screen televisions, with an intriguing exception: smaller LCD sets. In the last couple of weeks we’ve reported a six percent drop in the PriceSCAN 40-49 Inch Plasma Index and a four and a half percent decline in the PriceSCAN 40-Inch 720p Index
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For Holiday Flat Screen Prices, Maybe Less Will Be More
In the wake of the conclusion of the government’s “Cash for Clunker’s” auto purchase subsidy program, it appears GPS prices are starting to buckle. We’ve seen a 7.5% decline in the value of our Automotive GPS – Voice Recognition Index (see our press release )
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With "Cash For Clunker’s" End, Lower GPS Prices
Blu-ray player prices are accelerating the pace of their decline as we approach the holiday shopping season, and there seems to be no end in sight. The PriceSCAN Blu-ray index fell some six percent in the first week of October, by the end of which the total fourth quarter decline came to 12.8% (see our press release )
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A Blu-ray Of Light At End Of Price Decline Tunnel?
Leading designer & manufacturer of custom presentation and promotional packaging adds high-speed Xeikon digital press to offer dynamic dimensional packaging with full variable-data capabilities Buffalo, NY and Itasca, IL, October 16, 2009 – The Colad Group, LLC (www.colad.com), a leading designer and manufacturer of presentation and promotional packaging located in Buffalo, NY, purchased a Xeikon 6000 digital color press (www.xeikon.com). The Xeikon 6000 is capable of running 20 inch wide substrate rolls with virtually no limitations in length with substrate weights as light as 27 lb. text and as heavy as 16 pt
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Colad Adds Xeikon Digital Press