Creating a unique photo book and printing just one copy of it, or maybe another two for the grand parents, has become increasingly popular in many British families. Some businesses are also discovering the beauty of professional, glossy photo book print at minimal print runs. This allows to experiment with different images and lay-outs and to keep stocks of promotional material low. The market for online consumer photo printing is very competitive and businesses can benefit from the low prices and high quality of some of the photo labs.

Why would a business want to print books in extremely small print runs?

Businesses, large and small need to present themselves and what they do. An architect or creative furniture maker should be able to show prospective clients references of past work. Hair stylists have started to do the same. With a couple of copies of a book showing exemplar haircuts in the waiting area, the stylist may influence clients wishes for a hair cut by the stylist's past work.

Creative professions

Creative people love photo books, those in creative professions are no exception. From creative carpenters to cabinet makers and bathroom and kitchen designers, many use photo books to illustrate different styles and real projects they have realised. Of course, those images work on websites, but taking a book to a client to show or displaying some in reception or the show room looks really professional. 

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Internetfototjänsten FotoInsight presenterar idag den senaste versionen av FotoInsights designprogram för Windows, Linux och Mac OS med nya fotoalbum med fotopapper.

Göteborg, den 23 juni 2010. - Med hjälp av Europas populäraste fotoprogram för Windows, Linux och Mac OS kan man skapa fotoalbum med upp till 130 sidor på bara tre minuter. Den senaste versionen av FotoInsight Designer klarar förutom de kända fotoböckerna även fotoalbum med fotopapper. Enligt tillverkaren håller färgerna bättre på moderna fotopapper. 

I FotoInsights nya fotoalbum med fotopapper förblir sidorna uppslagna utan att välva sig

FotoInsight lyfter fram att sidorna i de nya fotoalbumen med fotopapper inte längre välver sig utan öppnas helt 180º och ligger platt mot albumet. För de här nya fotoalbumen används en ny bindningsprocess då pappret är tjockare och fastare än pappret i de vanliga CEWE-fotoböckerna. Tack vare den nya bindningen ligger sidorna helt platt utan att välva sig. På de helt platta sidorna ser bilder som går över två sidor bättre ut. FotoInsights vd Klaas Brümann: "Det tjockare pappret och de glänsande färgerna i de nya fotoalbumen på de kännbart tjockare pappren ger en högre kvalitetskänsla än de sedan många år kända CEWE-fotoböckerna. Vi förväntar oss att de nya fotoalbumen kommer att bli populära bland proffs och som bröllopsalbum!" 

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FotoInsight tillkännagav idag lanseringen av nya bildpresenter i kristall. Den nya serien med fotokristaller omfattar bildramar, nyckelringar, pennställ och kristallhjärtan. För mer inspiration i samband med Mors dag, erbjuder onlinebutiker som FotoInsight ett stort utbud av presentidéer där användarens egna bilder kan integreras.

Göteborg, den 21 april 2010. -- FotoInsight, en ledande, oberoende digitalbildtjänst, presenterade idag nya lasergraverade bildpresenter, inklusive fotoramar, pennställ och hjärtan av kristall. På de nya bildprodukterna av kristall graveras bilder i solida glasblock. Bildpresenterna lanseras som ett komplement till FotoInsights redan breda utbud av bildpresenter, tryckta fotoramar, hälsningskort och kalendrar. FotoInsight förväntar sig att de nya kristallartiklarna blir populära presenter på Mors dag.

I USA inspirerades man av den s.k. brittiska dagen efter det amerikanska inbördeskriget. Den ursprungliga tanken var att förena kvinnor i en Mors dag för fred. Det tog bara ett par år innan Mors dag blev en av de viktigaste händelserna på året för handeln och idén att skänka sin mor en liten present den här dagen spred sig över hela världen. Den perfekta presenten på Mors dag ska vara lika personlig som relationen. Minnespresenter med bilder kombinerar ofta något användbart eller angenämt med en personlig touch.

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FotoInsight tillkännagav idag lanseringen av nya bildpresenter i kristall. Den nya serien med fotokristaller omfattar bildramar, nyckelringar, pennställ och kristallhjärtan. För mer inspiration i samband med Mors dag, erbjuder onlinebutiker som FotoInsight ett stort utbud av presentidéer där användarens egna bilder kan integreras.

Göteborg, den 21 april 2010. -- FotoInsight, en ledande, oberoende digitalbildtjänst, presenterade idag nya lasergraverade bildpresenter, inklusive fotoramar, pennställ och hjärtan av kristall. På de nya bildprodukterna av kristall graveras bilder i solida glasblock. Bildpresenterna lanseras som ett komplement till FotoInsights redan breda utbud av bildpresenter, tryckta fotoramar, hälsningskort och kalendrar. FotoInsight förväntar sig att de nya kristallartiklarna blir populära presenter på Mors dag.

I USA inspirerades man av den s.k. brittiska dagen efter det amerikanska inbördeskriget. Den ursprungliga tanken var att förena kvinnor i en Mors dag för fred. Det tog bara ett par år innan Mors dag blev en av de viktigaste händelserna på året för handeln och idén att skänka sin mor en liten present den här dagen spred sig över hela världen. Den perfekta presenten på Mors dag ska vara lika personlig som relationen. Minnespresenter med bilder kombinerar ofta något användbart eller angenämt med en personlig touch.

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Att trycka på canvasduk var tidigare ett arbete för små verkstäder som tryckte konst som hantverk och spände upp dukarna på ramar. FotoInsight automatiserar den här processen och erbjuder nu dekorativa väggprydnader utifrån egna bilder för hemmet och kontoret.

Göteborg, den 23 februari 2010. – Att ta bra bilder är idag enklare än någonsin. Många digitala fotografier kan förstoras upp på en stor duk på kontoret, i konferensrummet eller hemma på väggen. Förut var det bara små verkstäder som kunde producera tryckta canvasdukar med bilder – till horribla priser. FotoInsight automatiserar processen så att man kan erbjuda helt personliga väggprydnader till ett bra pris.

FotoInsight, en specialist som hjälper både proffs och hobbyfotografer, trycker foton på canvasduk med 300 dpi i storlekarna 20 x 30 cm (digitala bilder med minst 800 x 1100 pixlar) upp till 60 x 80 cm (2500 x 3300 pixlar rekommenderas). Bilden spänns upp på en kilram och kan hängas direkt på väggen. FotoInsight använder moderna fibrer som är optimerade för hållbarhet och färgbriljans samt standardiserade storlekar som ger en i stor utsträckning automatiserad produktionsprocess. Enligt FotoInsight ger det här för första gången en genomgående hög kvalitet och lång hållbarhet till priser som ligger långt under konkurrenternas.

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Biskop Valentin von Terni är känd som en helig martyr. Han avrättades den 14 februari 269 på grund av sin tro. Biskop Valentin ska ha trotsat förbudet från den romerske kejsaren Claudius II och vigt förälskade som han enligt legenden skänkte blommor från sin trädgård. En modern Alla hjärtans dag-present för flickvännen, pojkvännen eller partnern behöver något mer personligtän vad köpta blommor ge. 

Göteborg och Cambridge, 22 januari 2010. -- Den internationella onlinefototjänsten FotoInsight erbjuder från och med idag och i god tid inför Alla hjärtans dag en bildpanoramamugg som trycks med en ny teknik. Den här nya presentidéen utökar sortimentet för Alla hjärtans dag i år så att det går att få presenter med en riktigt personlig touch. Muggen med panoramafoton utökar FotoInsights redan tidigare omfångsrika sortiment av fotomuggar och koppar.

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Göteborg och Cambridge. 1 december 2009. – FotoInsight erbjuder sedan november 2003 bildframkallning och ett stort urval av bildpresentartiklar för privatpersoner och företag på webbplatsen http://fotoinsight.se. Nu meddelar bildtjänsteföretaget att svenska tjänster nu erbjuds via företaget FotoInsight Nordic. Under sina första sex år har företaget expanderat kontinuerligt och säljer nu bilder på riktigt fotopapper, fotoalbum, bildkalendrar och bildpresenter i mer än 32 länder och på sju språk. Expansionskursen tog företaget till Italien i oktober 2005, i februari 2006 till Spanien och i april 2007 till Frankrike. Webb- och kundtjänsten för de olika webbplatserna sköts av personal som har de respektive språken som modersmål. Hög kvalitet och snabb leverans i hela Europa uppnås genom att man har sex stycken strategiskt placerade produktionsställen som kan leverera bildpresenter till Sverige i god tid till jul om man beställer innan den 14 december. 

VD:n för FotoInsight, Klaas Brümann, säger: ”Sverige har en högt utvecklad marknad för digitala bilder med mycket anspråksfulla konsumenter. Med vår engelskspråkiga tjänst har vi sedan många år många trogna kunder. Vår erfarenhet visar oss att FotoInsights kvalitet och den nyskapande FOTOBOKEN har mycket potential. Vi tar oss an marknaden med nya produktidéer och tror att de svenska kunderna särskilt kommer att uppskatta vår genomgående höga kvalitet.” FotoInsight framkallar foton med hjälp av en patenterad labb- och tryckteknik från Tyskland, Schweiz och Israel. Tillsammans med den engelskspråkiga, internationella webbplatsen har FotoInsight kunder i alla västeuropeiska och de flesta centraleuropeiska länder och är en av de ledande bildtjänsterna i Europa på internet.

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Ever more and better images rest on ever smaller storage media. FotoInsight uses increased image resolution for innovative photo products and offers during October 2009 only 1/3 discount on photo calendars orders.

Cambridge. 7  Oct. 2009. - A professionally printed calendar using own photographs must rank among the most convenient photo gifts for friends and family. But photo labs can only print calendars, once the images have been uploaded. In the days before Christmas calendar production is running at full capacity. To entice early birds, FotoInsight offers 1/3 off on photo calendars during October with the discount voucher "EARLYBIRD". Those ordering their personalised Christmas gifts in October can therefore make real savings.

Photographic calendars can be ordered by uploading 13 digital images online. Alternatively FotoInsight also offers free Designer software, with additional calendar models, many calendar templates and many more editing tools than an internet browser could handle. Editing the calendar through a special software tool allows for example to freely position any number of images on a single page. This is useful when an event should be enhanced by scanned holiday memories, like entrance tickets, postcards or maps – these can now be integrated into a professionally printed photo calendar. The increase in design flexibility follows requests from customers, ordering photographic calendars year after year for friends and family.

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Cambridge, 20 August 2009. - Europe's most popular photo book software is now also available for Linux and Mac OS. Against an ever growing number of photo book services, FotoInsight is increasing its technological lead with the introduction of version 4.5 of FotoInsight Designer. The application is available as a free download on the photo service's website and it can create a 130 page photo book lay-out in under three minutes. The new release of the order software adds photo albums processed on thick, lustre finish photographic paper pages. The new photo paper album styles ranging from 26 to 82 pages (in steps of eight pages) are only available in the FotoInsight Designer software.

In FotoInsight's new Photo Paper Album each page lays flat

FotoInsight states that the book bulge in the new photo paper albums disappear, as the pages lay flat when the book is opened 180 degrees wide. A new binding process is being used for the album pages, which are thicker than pages in CEWE Photobooks. This allows the pages in an open photo paper album to lay flat, rather than bowing or arching up towards the spine. Flat pages make it easier to view images which spread across a double page. FotoInsight's Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: "The new printed photo album's thicker pages provide a premium feel over traditional coffee table style photo books. We expect the new photographic paper books to be popular with professional users and for wedding photo books!" 

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Cambridge. 23 July 2009. - When the start of a new school year approaches, the school bag needs filling. The online photo printer FotoInsight from Cambridge offers a new service to individualise such items. The idea is to personally engage the youngsters with their school supplies, to ensure that they will look after them. In addition, own pictures of a pet, a group of friends or from the holidays keep positive memories alive. An aluminium water flask with a personal photograph is less likely to be kicked in-lieu of a football. The school bag will be treated with due care if the the own image has been printed onto it. FotoInsight now prints digital photographs onto practical items like spiral note pads, money boxes or fluffy key rings.

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Canvas printing is popular for a family portrait from a professional photographer or a wedding picture. But any well achieved photograph in sufficient resolution could decorate an office or home. A framed poster or canvas print from a photograph is in any case more personal than a poster from a furniture store. A few years ago, during a visit to a well know Swedish furniture chain, I noticed that most of the posters on the shelf had already been there in my own youth. This popular chain charges about £30 for a framed print. Own photographs printed onto a canvas cost about twice as much, but are infinitely more individual than posters from stock and they preserve personal memories.

Instead of standard decoration for our teenager's room we printed a photograph from her skiing holidays which she chose, onto a large canvas. The print was so good and popular, that many more poster and canvas prints have followed since. It doesn't really matter if a poster print from an artist makes a higher cultural claim. Own photographs reflect the photographers impressions, and thanks to digital technology, these can be reproduced, just like when telling a story through pictures instead of words. Most people with digital images from holidays, parties or family pics have such images which should be on display.

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Photo sharing from Flickr, Facebook, Picasa and geotagging site "locr" come to personal printed photo albums. Today FotoInsight launches a new version of FotoInsight Designer, now also for Macintosh and Linux. The service adds new photo book formats and new features like fading frames and festive templates.

Cambridge, 17 March 2009. - Against an ever increasing number of photo book services, FotoInsight is increasing its technological lead with the introduction of version 4.5 of FotoInsight Designer, which is now also available for Linux and Mac. The ease at which photos can freely be inserted into the book or into templates now also extends to clipart, maps, text and images from photo sharing sites like Flickr as well as the geotagging site "locr" and Wikipedia GeoNames. The photo sharing sites become an online interface for photo book building with family and friends, as users can now complement their printed photo albums with additional pictures (e.g. the Eiffel Tower form a different angle) from photo sharing sites, straight from within the FotoInsight Designer software. 

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Internet specialist ECCE TERRAM exhibits ground breaking innovative software solutions at PMA in Las Vegas – Booth # Q176-4

Oldenburg, Germany. February 13, 2009. - ECCE TERRAM – the innovator and provider of solutions for the digital photo market – will be showcasing its expanded software solution for photo laboratories in the area of ordering programs at the PMA 2009; Along with the 2.0 version of the “iPhone Photo Order Client,” the first Offline Client solution for PC with multi-touch capability is being presented among other things. The company thus again raises the claim of presenting technically sophisticated and innovative solutions.

In many laboratories, online photo orders in which digital images are printed on traditional photographic paper exceeded the volume of analogue photos in 2008. Digital image processing continues to be a vigorously growing industry. Numbers from the 2008 Holiday Season retail trade in many places show that the economic crisis ihas n no way dampened the pleasure provided by digital images. Consumers’ desire for unique moments or very personal photo gifts remains strong. Very few software developers have the experience and knowledge to create a complete solution – from consumer to production, for wholesale laboratories and photo services in the online and in-store market. ECCE TERRAM’s experience uniquely serves these end to end requirements.

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A Dozen Gift Ideas which have not Increased in Price

Cambridge. 25 November 2008. After many years, this will be the first Christmas in a recession. Almost 8 in 10 Britons responded that they are taking steps to make Christmas more affordable, according to research by Birmingham Midshires. The survey of more than 2,000 adults revealed the average Christmas spend will drop by £102. The costs of many important goods of daily life have increased in the current year, the inflation has reached new heights and families are tightening their belts. Not every wish will come true this year.

The recession is a good opportunity to re-think priorities in life

The sad news for children is that 14 per cent of parents will be giving their children smaller stockings this year. And Grandparents need to receive attention, too. The trend is to personalise gifts, self made presents, handicrafts, family entertainment, or a games evenings. Many families could be helped if they communicate the importance of unity at Christmas, setting a strict price limit for presents. Here a dozen gift ideas which have not gone up in price:

• Photo calendars are a classic among the Christmas gifts – printed through a photo lab, calendars look really professional. All photo calendars like the kitchen, table and wall calendars from FotoInsight are also good value! See a  photo calendar test  here.

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The best way to create a calendar with your own photographs

There are three different ways to make your own photo calendar. If you have many photo prints which you prefer to stick onto paper and if you want to add hand drawn images, an old style pre-printed calendar template will still be useful. More versatile and interesting is making photographic calendars through software, and the result looks most professional when printed by a proper photo service. For this you normally have to use the software which the (online) photolab provides (usually) for free at http://fotoinsight.co.uk/calendar

FotoInsight offers wall and desktop calendars. All calendars are printed professionally on 250 gr/m2 paper using Indigo technology (except the Desktop calendar in tin box which is processed on photographic paper) and cost between £4.99 and £16.99 per calendar plus £2.80 delivery (Europa wide, also with seperate delivery address).

Printing-1 is the independent option for photo book calendars for Mac OS and Windows PC users, but no wall calendars. Printing-1 websites includes a kind of photo sharing service, which allows to show the layout to others online prior to a print order: http://www.printing-1.co.uk - Discount: First order £5 off.

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Cambridge, UK. 17 July 2008. – According to FotoInsight, thousands of its online photo printing customers have taken advantage of its new production processes. Modern fabrics, optimised for ink absorption and long durability and standardised sizes which allow a largely automatised production process result in professional quality of a high continuity and durability at lower prices.

Thousands of digital camera users have used FotoInsight to have their photos printed into a photobook or on a canvas. The product has been so succesful, that FotoInsight is now extending its canvas offering to the Mediterranean countries. FotoInsight's Managing Director Klaas Brumann explains the move: “Photo canvas prints are an ideal gift, but sending large format parcels is costly. FotoInsight offers direct shipment of canvases to overseas addresses, ideal for birthday or Christmas gifts. France and Spain are among the most popular holiday and retirement destinations. We expect that both our English and local language services will be popular in the Mediterranean countries.”

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Printing-1 the specialist service for PC and Mac makes ever bigger photo books. The new larger formats Premium (H12” x W16”) and Panorama (H8” x W12”) offer space for many photographs on up to 250 pages.

London, 14 July 2008. – The majority of snaps taken during the vacations, a wedding or party, never make it onto the traditional 6”x4” sheet of photographic paper; stepping in its place are online photo sharing and printed photo albums which are professionally printed as a coffee table photo book. As the resolution of digital photographs is increasing, the specialist service Printing-1 is making photo books that literally stand out by their sheer size.

Printing-1 extends its offer with the new formats “panorama” and “premium” and at the same time is making the photo books bigger. The Printing-1 photo books carrying up to 144 pages could always be made larger than with most other photo book services. Printing-1 is now extending the number of pages, offering the options of 200 and 250 pages. According to the vendor, the “premium” format book with 250 pages is Europe's largest on-demand photobook. In any case, it offers a lot of space to archive photographic memories.

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A New Photo Book for 60 cm Wide Landscapes Spread Across Double Pages. The new version of the FotoInsight Pro software is available as a free download.

Cambridge, 22 Apr. 2008. – Most households use digital cameras and a growing share take high resolution pictures which can be enlarged to poster size. While computers, mobile phones and cameras have a tendency to become ever more compact, the resolution (or number of pixels) of digital images is growing ever larger. In line with it grows the demand for large format prints. FotoInsight serves this trend with posters, canvas printing and the new XL photobooks, in which pictures can extend across a 60 cm wide double page spread.

“The digital image quality has improved vastly. The demand for our large format print products like poster- and canvas print has experienced enormous growth” explains FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann and adds: “It was therefore only logical to add a large photo book format; the new XL photo book to our range.”

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The trend to personalised gift production continues. FotoInsight prints photos uploaded over the internet onto gift items. For this year’s Mother’s Day and Easter, FotoInsight expands its range of photo gifts adding the Panoramic Photo Mug.

Cambridge, 29 Feb. 2008. – FotoInsight of Cambridge, a leading independent digital photo service in the UK, announced today a new Panoramic Photo Mug. To apply the wider, panoramic photo onto mugs FotoInsight uses a new rotating print process. The new photo mug is launched in addition to FotoInsight’s already extensive range of photographic gift items, printed photo albums, poster, greeting cards and photo calendars.

Mother's Day is a day honouring mothers, celebrated in many places around the world. Mothers often receive gifts on this day. When searching for Mother’s Day or Easter gift ideas the personal touch and lasting impression are desired which chocolates and flowers can’t provide. Online digital photo services like FotoInsight can help by transforming an individual photograph into a present that will be cherished and remembered for years to come.

• Active families who want to remember their holidays will find the photo book printed from own digital photographs ideal. With a variety of creative themes and page layouts, these one-of-a-kind photo gifts will help to remember a romantic get-away or the every-day moments shared. Photo books in a full colour and fully editable cover start from £14.99 for 26 pages in colour (plus p&p). FotoInsight is promoting Large and XL Photo Books with a £5 voucher (simply write 5YEARS into the voucher field).

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While industrial mass production has been moving to the East and Far East, modern computer controlled production processes increase the flexibility of Europe’s industry, making ever smaller production runs possible. FotoInsight of Cambridge specialises in one of a kind photo gifts for added inspiration at the time of San Valentine’s and Mother’s Day, with an extensive range of gift ideas, to which the photo service applies the user’s digital photographs.

Cambridge, 21 Jan 2008. -- FotoInsight, a leading independent digital photo service, expects the crystal photo ware to be popular as Valentine’s and Mother’s Day gifts. “Love is a special feeling and so it must be expressed in an extraordinary way, Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion. So Valentine's Day gifts are important to make your day memorable in its way” states Catalina Martínez, Head of Communication at FotoInsight Ltd.

When searching for Valentine’s Day gift ideas for a girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband the personal touch is desired and candy and flowers can’t provide it. Online digital photo services like FotoInsight can help transforming an individual photograph into a Valentine present that will be cherished and remembered for years to come.

• Love Crystallised: FotoInsight adds to its selection of photo gifts designed to display and preserve cherished photographs. New offerings this Valentine’s Day include crystal heart with a 3D laser engraved photograph, picture frames, crystal key rings, pen holder glass block, hearts of glass with a laser engraved photograph and photo mugs from frosted glass. Special about the crystal key ring is an LED light to illuminate the engraved image.

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The ECCE TERRAM Internet Services company will go to Las Vegas to present its Photo2lab Software Suite on the main photo trade fair PMA, which will take place from 31 January to 2 February 2008. Integrated into the Photo2lab Software Suite is the HDX4 Photo Manager of HDX4 GmbH. This is a HDX4 Photo SDK for professional picture optimisation.

Dortmund. Jan 21st, 2008. - HDX4 GmbH has specialised in the development of software all about the topics of burning and multimedia. A suitable tool for digital photography is the SDK HDX4 Photo Manager, which other companies can license to upgrade their own software with new functions. SDK includes the two modules HDX4 Natural Enhancement and HDX4 Upscaling, both proprietary developments from the technology laboratories of HDX4 GmbH.

A distinctive feature of the HDX4-modules is that they can help to turn any snapshot into a really professional photograph – it only takes a mouse click. So far, photographers rather used trial and error to adjust brightness, contrast and colours; now the software can detect imperfections of pictures and corrects them without need for further user intervention. Frank Simon of ECCE TERRAM: "Thanks to the HDX4-functions, dark pictures with low contrast and matt colours are definitely a thing of the past. Suddenly, the sky prints perfectly blue and details, which were in the shade become visible again."

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The project, Ethanol & Orphans, is looking for celebrities who think it is a good idea and who will endorse the project.  The project sponsor is the not-for-profit charity, Our Family Orphan Communities, Inc. 

The Ethanol & Orphans project is currently underway in Vietnam where we will be building a cellulose ethanol refinery and using the profits to build:
 - a Self-sustaining, high-tech, green Community for street orphans where they will be raised in families with surrogate parents and grandparents, given care, skills (job, computer, familiy/life) and supplemental education.
 - a Medical clinic supported by the profits from the refinery so those who cannot afford it can still receive treatment.
 - more care for disabled children (who are still today being born with birth defects from Agent Orange which was used in the war in the 60's and 70's) so they can learn to be self-sufficient even with disabilities.

We are looking for people who care about:
 - improving the environment
 - using less petrochemical fuels
 - helping developing / third world countries to improve
 - street children living barely surviving
 - disabled children who need assistance
 - providing medical/dental care for those who cannot afford it
 - protecting food sources (we will use sugarcane for the refiery, NOT grains)
 - providing education for children, the future leaders of their country
 - and more humanitarian projects

The celebrities will be asked to speak about our project when they can, and to allow us to use thier comments/picture/name in our website and promotion materials.

For complete details about the project, see: http://www.orphancommunities.org
For questions, write to us at: info@orphancommunities.org
 
Please forward this to others who you know will be interested in supporting this project.

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The online photo printing service, founded in 2003 offers its customers a £5 discount on its A4 and new XL photo books.

Cambridge, GB. 26 Nov 2007. – During the first four years thousands of digital camera users have had photo calendars printed with FotoInsight. With the popularity of its photo book service, launched in 2005, the online service started to grow rapidly, so that the company is now operating Europe wide. To celebrate it’s success in its fifth year, FotoInsight is giving away £5 discount vouchers on its large (12”x8”) and XL format photo books (12”x12”).

FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments: "We think that your large and XL photo books are the most impressive coffee table photo books from own digital images in the UK. FotoInsight is preparing to accept photo book orders for delivery within the UK in time for Christmas up to the 10th of December. For Soft- and Linen Cover photo books FotoInsight states that it will deliver in time for Christmas if ordered by the 12th of December."

Photo books are a personal present, preserving memories for friends, family and one self. Popular for photographs of memorable events like holidays, a party or wedding photo album, an XL or A4 photo book from FotoInsight will keep the images accessible and preserve colourful memories. In a photo book colours still shine when a SIM-card or CD has long oxidized or become incompatible. Dr. Rolf Hollander, CEO of FotoInsight’s production partner and largest photo finisher in Europe: "Quality is our priority. All materials we use are subject to extensive testing and are guaranteed by their manufacturers to last at least 100 years. This guarantee extends to photo printing on real photographic paper as well as to the photo book."

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Cambridge, GB. 4 Oct. 2007. – Half of all households use digital cameras. A growing share of camera users take high resolution pictures which can be enlarged to poster size. While computers, mobile phones and cameras have a tendency to become ever more compact, the resolution (or number of pixels) of digital images is growing ever larger. In line with it grows the demand for large format prints. FotoInsight serves this trend with posters, canvas printing and the new XL photobooks, in which pictures can extend across a 60cm / 24” wide double page spread.

“The digital image quality has improved vastly. The demand for our large format print products like poster- and canvas print has experienced explosive growth” explains FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann and adds: “We had many enquiries about how to create photo books in larger formats with the superb Photobook Software; the new XL-format photo book is the answer.”

The FotoInsight Pro photo book software is intuitive and does not require specialist knowledge. According to the vendor, the Layout Assistant in its “FotoInsight Pro” photo book software can design a coffee table style photo book in XL-format in under three minutes. Users with time and patience may enjoy designing their own printed book photo album page by page or simply refine the Layout Assistant’s design with texts and repositioning the images.

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FotoInsight prints digital images onto customised mugs and other well inspired gift ideas

Cambridge, 19 Sep 2007. A novelty mug made of frosted glass with a coloured photo imprint broadens FotoInsight’s range of personalised photo mugs. Online photo services like FotoInsight turn a digital image into a personal gift, which preserves memories in colour for many years. As a gift mug it can be a personal present or a funny present.

 The frosted glass mug can be edited with a photo and text, allowing to further customize a ‘name mug’ with a photo print. The photographic mug is well suited for coffee, tea, milk and other non-translucent drinks which shine through the frosted glass and change the photo background colour. The new glass mug and other photo crystal items can be edited directly online at http://fotoinsight.co.uk/gifts or through the FotoInsight Pro offline software client which is available as a free download.

The coating and heating of glass mugs is a technically much more demanding process than with traditional china mugs. In a special process the coating is treated with heat whereby it binds to the glass’ surface. Instead of a rubber like surface this new printed mug is as smooth and shiny as silk and also longer lasting than with other processes.

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Mika Valkonen, Managing Director,
Procemex, Finland

Augsburg, Germany, May 24, 2007 – PrintCity welcomes new member Procemex, a leading supplier of camera based web monitoring & web inspection systems to the alliance and its publishing, commercial & web activities.

Procemex is a machine vision company based in Jyväskylä, Finland, and since 1990 the same core team has been continuously providing leading edge image processing innovations for troubleshooting paper related processes. This technology is today also being used by many of the leading web offset and gravure printers in Europe.

Procemex is a specialist in filming and analyzing web breaks, web defects and in general printing press runnability problems. It helps its customers solve printing press efficiency concerns relating to paper, process and machinery.

This is done by combining innovative camera based technology, both for improving printing press efficiency and inspecting paper quality. This unique capability is a valuable strength helping Procemex to expand its activities in the world of printing in 2007 & 2008. 

According to Mika Valkonen, Managing Director of Procemex, the reasons for joining PrintCity in 2007 are, “We have expanded our activities 3-4 years ago from paper into printing and see that there is need for deeper understanding of the root causes of gravure and web offset printing problems.

“One of the reasons for joining PrintCity is to gain more experience in the whole printing process. What could be a better environment to deepen, and in return, to share your knowledge, than this type of cooperation with the experts in all key areas of printing”, concludes Valkonen.

Rainer Kuhn, PrintCity managing director, welcomes Procemex into the ‘connection of competence’ alliance by commenting, “The strength of the PrintCity alliance is the wide range of companies, technologies and capabilities working together. Procemex will have a very important contribution to our connection of competence work and I am sure that they will involve themselves in PrintCity projects and activities.

Procemex has confirmed that it will participate at drupa 2008 within PrintCity in hall 6.

More information can be found about Procemex at www.procemex.com 

These publication images are available by visiting http://www.printcity.de/index.php?site_id=318 or by emailing press@printcity.de 

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A new service using long lasting fibres mounted onto a wooden frame for high quality, large format canvas prints is being launched during “Focus-Exhibition-Week” and in time for “Mother’s Day” by FotoInsight. The company is known for its photo gift and photo book services to be competitive through large volume, hi-tech production processes.

Cambridge, UK. 6 March 2007. – Taking good photographs has never been easier. Many digital images lingering on computer hard drives could shine if being displayed on an office wall, the reception or in the sitting room at home. Until recently photo canvas printing was done by small workshops at horrendous prices. FotoInsight claims to apply the latest technology and efficient production methods to offer what it calls big canvas prints at low prices.

FotoInsight, a specialist serving amateur and professional photographers alike, prints canvases in sizes from 20x30cm (minimum resolution 800 x 1.100 Pixel) to 60x80 cm (2.500 x 3.300 pixel recommended). FotoInsight states that it uses man made optimised fabrics and fade resistant "archival" inks to guarantee longevity and brilliant colours. The hi-tech inks penetrate deep into the fabric and can therefore be printed and mounted over the edges of the wooden frame. Standardised sizes allow a largely automatic production process. According to FotoInsight this ensures constant quality and long durability at lower prices for the first time.

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Laser Engraved Photo Crystal Gifts for Valentine’s

FotoInsight of Cambridge today announced the launch of new crystal photo gifts. The new crystal photo range includes picture frames, key rings, pen brackets and a crystal heart. For added inspiration at the time of San Valentine’s and Mother’s Day, online photo services like FotoInsight offer extensive ranges of gift ideas, applying the user’s digital photographs to them.

Cambridge, 18 Jan 2007. -- FotoInsight, a leading independent digital photo service, announced today new laser engraved crystal photo gifts, including crystal picture frames, crystal key rings, crystal pen holders, crystal photo hearts and glass mugs. The new photo crystal items are launched in addition to FotoInsight already extensive range of photographic gift items, printed photo albums, posters, greeting cards and calendars. FotoInsight expects the new crystal photo ware to be popular as Valentine’s and Mother’s Day gifts.

“Love is a special feeling and so it must be expressed in an extraordinary way, Valentine's Day is the perfect occasion. So Valentine's Day gifts are most important to make your day memorable in its way” states Catalina Martinez, Head of Communication at FotoInsight Ltd. When searching for Valentine’s Day gift ideas for a girlfriend, boyfriend, wife or husband the personal touch is desired and candy and flowers can’t provide it. Online digital photo services like FotoInsight can help transforming an individual photograph into a Valentine present that will be cherished and remembered for years to come.

• FotoInsight adds to its selection of crystal photo gifts designed to display and preserve cherished photographs. New offerings this Valentine’s Day include crystal heart with a 3D laser engraved photograph, picture frames, crystal key rings, pen holder glass block, hearts of glass with a laser engraved photograph and photo mugs from frosted glass. Special about the crystal key ring is an LED light to illuminate the engraved image.

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Free software from FotoInsight helps to create coffee table style photo books with covers which can be fully edited. Without any prior experience, beginners can present and preserve their own digital photographs in individual, carefully crafted, glossy photo books.

Dublin and Cambridge. 12 January 2007. – The personal, coffee table style photo book is rapidly developing into a very popular photo print product and is about to overtake the traditional 10x15cm print as the most common photographic printed output. Rarely has the development of a consumer product progressed as quickly. FotoInsight, a leading Internet photo service launched photo books from an online facility with limited editing features one year ago. Today the company FotoInsight is introducing a revolution in Photo Book creation software – a time saving fade-proof record of precious memories for print. It allows novice and inexperienced users to layout their digital images in full colour double page spread, move, crop and edit pictures to any size and add text freely within the photo book, on the cover and on the book spine.

FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments: “Our customer’s expectations have been growing rapidly. We have decided to provide photo books only through our software, which we is compact download. Our free software provides a photos book draft within three minutes. To the astonishment of most, it looks just like a professionally laid out coffee table style photo book.” As photo books can be made with up to 98 pages, which can take in excess of 500 images the software also helps to improve the online upload to the photo book production facilities used by FotoInsight. Andy White, Internet Sales Manager at FotoInsight's production partner Standard Photographic Ltd states: "We are extremely proud to launch this exciting new project with FotoInsight in Ireland and other countries. The photo book is far and above anything else on the market. This is a major step forward for both companies."

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