Pro Imaging
Posted on December 18, 2007 11:50 AM
Sam’s Club Members Can Now Print Poster-Sized Images On-Demand, in Minutes, Hours or Days
“We are always looking for ways to improve services and bring new revenue opportunities to our customers, and we’re especially excited to be working with Sam’s Club on rolling this out to their stores across the country,” said Thomas Curley, director of marketing for lab solutions, Imaging Division, FUJIFILM U.S.A. “The posters can be produced in a variety of sizes on the same day, at reasonable cost, and represent additional revenue for the photofinishing side of their business.”
Poster printing and signage services are now available at more than 580 Sam’s Club locations throughout the United States. The solution combines an EPSON/FUJIFILM Stylus Pro 7800 wide format inkjet printer, provided by Fujifilm Hunt Chemicals for Fujifilm Frontier Systems, with the Frontier Photo Controller (PIC) Version 3, and Fujifilm’s Image IntelligenceTM for enhanced color management.
Sam’s Club members can bring their images to any location, and print out images or signs in sizes ranging from 11”x14” to 20”x30”. In addition, this is one of the only on-demand solutions that will produce mounted poster prints, up to 20”x24”, in a matter of minutes. Fujifilm RC Semi-Gloss Boards fuse photo quality inkjet paper to museum class mount boards. The combination is fed directly into the printer, making it easy to go from printer to presentation.
With this offering, Sam’s Club members can create posters for student or office presentations, create signage for community group meetings and small businesses, as well as make creative decorations for parties and milestone celebrations.
“This is an exciting new addition to our capabilities at Sam’s Club Photo Centers and positions us to better help our members with both their business and personal graphic needs,” said Michael Chaney, merchandise director, Sam’s Club. “We believe our members will find this printing solution convenient and superior in quality to similar production techniques.”
Posted on December 5, 2007 10:26 AM
New Agreement Expands Silver Imaging Solution Offerings for Labs
“FUJIFILM has a long and positive history of providing high-quality color film, silver halide paper emulsions and photo processing chemicals to our customers," said Bob Harvey, director of marketing, Chemicals Group, for Fujifilm’s Imaging Division. "Given the current market, we believe the need exists to expand our silver imaging solution offerings to our customers to include economical silver recovery equipment and services as well. Our goal is to make it as easy as possible for our customers who choose to continue offering silver halide imaging products to remain in the silver halide photo processing business.”
This agreement designates Fujifilm as Hallmark’s sole national distributor for all varieties of Hallmark silver recovery equipment and metallic replacement columns, and allows Fujifilm to provide, through Hallmark Refining, competitive column and electrolytic flake silver refining services to most of its customers.
Silver prices are as high as they have been since the 1980s, and it is an excellent source of revenue for large and small photo processing operations alike. By entering into this partnership with Hallmark, Fujifilm ensures that customers receive competitive prices and timely returns for recovered silver. Although Hallmark will continue to refine silver sent directly to them by most Fujifilm customers, customers will benefit from the new Fujifilm/Hallmark partnership by entering into refining agreements directly with Fujifilm.
“We at Hallmark are looking forward to a strong and beneficial relationship with Fujifilm. Our commitment to the silver halide side of the photo industry is as strong as ever and we believe this strategic alliance will provide the best opportunity to optimize service to our mutual silver halide customers,” says Mark Osborn, director of sales for Hallmark.
For additional information, please email: ChemMarketing@fujifilm.com.
Posted on November 14, 2006 4:17 PM
FUJIFILM USA announced plans to re-introduce an ISO 50 Fujichrome professional film, tentatively named Velvia ll. The new film, which is in response to requests from photographers worldwide after the discontinuation of the original Fujichrome Velvia (RVP 50), is expected to be available in late spring 2007.
Posted on December 2, 2005 9:49 AM
Professional Photographer Magazine is presenting this year's coveted Hot1 Awards to Fujichrome Velvia 100 Professional, Fujicolor Pro 160S and Pro 160C Color Negative films and Fujicolor Crystal Archive Professional Paper Super Type C and Super Type PD. These Fujifilm products have been recognized for their innovative technology and superior quality.
"These awards recognize Fujifilm's commitment to offering today's photographers innovative products and the highest possible quality regardless of whether they are working in silver halide, digital or both," said Christian Fridholm, Director of Marketing, Professional Films at Fujifilm USA.
Professional Photographer magazine's Hot1 Awards are chosen based on innovation, overall quality and value for price. Awards are selected by a panel of working professional photographers and are one of the biggest competitions in the industry, representing 60 categories from several hundred different companies.
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