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Two products in LexJet’s Sunset portfolio of materials for professional-quality fine-art and photographic printing have received 2010 Hot Awards from Professional Photographer Magazine.  The two products chosen as “Hot Ones” in the Inkjet Media category are Sunset Velvet Rag 315g and Sunset Select Matte Canvas

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Sunset Velvet Rag and Sunset Select Canvas Win ‘Hot One’ Awards

More than 1,800 HP Indigo owners and users gathered at Dscoop5, the 2010 Dscoop Annual Conference that ran February 18-20 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel & Convention Center in Dallas. Both attendees and exhibitors increased significantly from 2009, the previous record-setting event for Dscoop.

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Highlights from Dscoop Conference

Xanté adds the heavy-duty Ilumina Digital Envelope Press GT, high-end Ilumina Digital Production Press GT, and entry level Ilumina GL 330 to the Ilumina series, which has become known for its high value, robust quality, color capabilities, and easy integration in any configuration. Also on display will be the Degrava DP 8500, an affordable and high quality, simple solution for label and tag printing; and the PlateMaker 5, a chemical-free, process-free, total prepress system that images paper proofs, film and polyester plates

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Three New Xanté Models Debut at GOA

Whether you shoot weddings, portraits, sports, products, or landscapes, it’s becoming clear that the new, hybrid VDSLR cameras are going to profoundly affect what clients will expect when they hire a professional photographer. (Why hire two separate professionals to shoot stills and video, when one qualified professional can deliver both?)  You can learn more about how

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Learn to Integrate Video into Your Photography Business at WPPI

The weakness in retail sales over the last few quarters has been accompanied by soft pricing across the consumer technology spectrum, but now price action in certain more advanced technologies may be indicating recovery. As reported in two recent PriceSCAN.com press releases , we’ve recently noted significant rallies in both our 12 Megapixel Digital Camera Index and our Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Index

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Closer To The State Of The Art, Prices Start To Rise

We are very excited to share with you details of an Australian company, Cartridge Rescue , who is committed to help saving the environment. We were recently introduced to Cartridge Rescue by Greg, one of our loyal customers

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It’s now even easier to help protect the environment …….

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.

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Kem McNair Creates Custom Surfboards as Wall Art

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