PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities articles from August 2005

PMA Magazine - Connecting the Imaging Communities archives from August 2005

Calendar of events.(Calendar)
August 1, 2005... Calendar of events August 5-7 PMA South Central Division Inc. Annual Meeting American Airlines Training & Conference Center Fort Worth, Texas 11 Spanish...

Passing of a pioneer: Frank Hatton, first director of PMA UK, dies at the age of 79.(IN MEMORIAM)(Obituary)
August 1, 2005... Frank Hatton, who became the first Photo Marketing Association International United Kingdom director in 1988, died at his home in Solihull, United Kingdom, June 24, after a long illness. "Frank was not only a father figure in the industry,...

Ribi Tech launches new digital video camera with launch of new company.(DV155)(Advertisement)
August 1, 2005... Jack Benun, President of Ribi Tech: "Throughout my career, we have successfully assembled highly skilled and motivated management teams whose objective is to make our customers money. We have done that at Ribi Tech as we did at Concord...

TV stars: consumers enjoy photos on high-end, big-screen televisions.(TRENDS & TECH)(Buyers Guide)
August 1, 2005... Watching photos on the TV set in your living room? Certainly that's not a new idea, and products have come and gone in that area. In the past year or so, however, manufacturers have introduced high-end plasma and LCD sets that allow the...

A winning look: Miller's Professional Imaging began annual contest to help studios promote portraits.(MARKETING)
August 1, 2005... Some are shot in dreamy soft focus: some are in crisp black and white. There's a baby asleep in a honey pot, a group of children holding hands among some trees, and a laughing youngster with a trach tube. What the photos all illustrate is...

A new way to share photos: photo sites, blogs make images part of a community.(TRENDS & TECH)
August 1, 2005... Photo sharing has come a long way since its early days. Remember Zing.com and PhotoPoint.com? Those companies are long gone, but photo-sharing is still going strong. The industry has evolved significantly since the "old days" of the late...

A helping hand: PMA Membership Sales and Services department juggles a variety of tasks.(PMA NEWS)(Photo Marketing Association)
August 1, 2005... If you have a membership question--who ya gonna call? Not Ghostbusters, but the team in PMA Membership Sales and Services. "Without members, there would be no PMA; it's our top priority to provide the highest level of customer service and...

Committees meet at PMA headquarters: several advisory committees visited Photo Marketing Association International headquarters in Jackson, Mich., in June to discuss industry issues.(PMA NEWS)
August 1, 2005... Commercial Lab Advisory Committee Pictured left to right are: Larry Capodilupo, ICL Imaging, Framingham, Mass.; Bob Koehler, Tri-Color Photographic Inc., Royal Oak, Mich.; Lou George, BWC Photo Imaging, Dallas, Texas; Kirk Green, Ferrari...

Getting there from here: Aperture Digital Lab launches a much-anticipated website.(Aperture Digital Lab Inc)
August 1, 2005... When Albert Ang and his long-time business partner Winnie Lee started Aperture Digital Lab Inc. in 2004, they knew a retail website would be a critical part of the business. Although their new venture, located in Markham, Ontario, Canada,...

Cameraphone innovations: Sprint executive discusses current and future imaging trends.(TRENDS & TECH)(Interview)
August 1, 2005... Pierre Barbeau, general manager, Sprint PCS Picture Mail, Overland Park, Kan., recently spoke with Photo Marketing to offer his take on cameraphones and the imaging industry, now and in the future. Photo Marketing: How long has Sprint been...

Kiosk customer care: high tech should also be "hi" tech to keep consumers happy.(RETAIL)
August 1, 2005... The growth of self-service photo kiosks doesn't mean throwing customers to the pixel wolves. Customers still want a friendly, comfortable environment; and many need a helping hand, no matter how simple and intuitive the technology. ...

What's in a buying group: independent retailers band together due to industry consolidation.(BUSINESS)
August 1, 2005... "I can't imagine why any independent wouldn't want to be part of a buying group," says Harry Reiter, president and co-founder of Town & Country Photo Dealers Inc. (www.tcphotodn.com), North Wales, Pa. Town & Country Photo Dealers Inc. ...

High-tech help: Digital and Wireless Imaging Summit set for Sept. 8.(EVENTS)
August 1, 2005... As cameraphones and cameras collide, members of the imaging industry are challenged to keep up with the ever-shifting sands. Photo Marketing Association International, Jackson, Mich., and iHollywood Forum Inc., Los Angeles, Calif., are...

Kiosk craze: digital print volume continues rapid growth at kiosks.(RETAIL)
August 1, 2005... Digital printing at kiosks grew 376 percent ill 2004, and accounted for a 17 percent share of the volume. The percent of households that have ever used a kiosk continues to grow, as kiosks are increasingly used as sources for printing...

Digital lab ideas: prepaid digital cards keeps customers coming back to Bedford's.(Bedford Camera and Video Inc.)
August 1, 2005... Jeff Beauchamp, president of Bedford Camera & Video Inc., Little Rock, Ark. (www.bedfords.com), has found a prepaid digital card is a huge success at the six Bedford stores. "It's modeled on the prepaid phone card concept," Beauchamp says....

Powerful portrait: Industry Trends Report provides insight into professional portrait market.(PROFESSIONAL)
August 1, 2005... There are about 13,245 retail studios in the United States--primarily providing still, video, or digital portrait photography services--representing 65,395 paid employees and $3.9 billion in sales. That's the good word from the U.S. Census...

Getting creative: DIMA Shoot-Out Creative Application winners share their secrets.(PROFESSIONAL)
August 1, 2005... A number of winners were crowned at the 2005 DIMA Digital Printer Shoot-Out, held prior to PMA 2005 in Orlando, Fla., in February. Winners were chosen from 122 prints entered by 37 companies. Four of those honors came in the Creative...