School and Events News
Supplier Price Increases
Just announced by Kodak and Fujifilm USA: Effective July 2008 both companies will be implementing a price increase.
Eastman Kodak: “Prices will increase as much as 20%, depending on product line and geography. The increases are a result of the soaring prices of key raw materials, especially silver and aluminum, as well as the rising cost of petroleum.”
Fujifilm USA: “announced that it will adopt a price increase on its range of photographic papers, chemistry and other photosensitive products in the U.S. This decision follows the recent announcement from Fujifilm Corporation that effective July, 2008, prices of its photographic papers and other photosensitive products will increase by 10-20%. Fujifilm’s pricing in the U.S. market will track with this adjustment.”
We do not have any further details at this time. This change could affect CPQ's pricing in the future. We cannot determine to what extent or when it will be implemented until we get specific product cost changes from our suppliers. We will strive to be as timely as possible with any pricing changes.
Volume Photographers Meeting - Spring 2008
The traditional Volume Photographers meeting in June is being reformatted to become a workshop/meeting. Target date is mid July. Please check this news page for details as they become available. The workshop will be held in Cleveland, TN.
Group Prints Pricing - Spring 2008
You may have noticed that last year class group type print prices went down from 1.50 to unit price. This saves our customers many dollars over the course of a season. The trade off was that we would need to charge for the test print we do that was covered under the 1.50 print price. The test print is necessary and a valuable tool to catch gross exposure variations, extreme cropping issues, some major text errors, and other problems that can be caught before the whole class or school is printed. Although not a “proofing service” it often saves valuable time and the expense of reprinting a job. We initiated the first part by lowering the group price but failed to initiate the test print charge until last week.
Winter Meeting - December 7th, 2007
School and Events Winter Meeting is scheduled for Jan. 3rd and 4th. Call for details if you did not receive a mail notice.
Spring Special will be announced offering a 10x13 or an 8x10 economy canvas panel with frame.
New Fun Pack Product - September 25th, 2007
Our new Fun Pack was recently added to our product line. Each style contains 1-8inch ruler, 2 bookmarks, 4 bookbag tags, 2 key fobs and 1 door hanger. There are six graphic styles to choose from. The products are in ROES School and Events software under Specialty Products. Available now or sell for spring. If you are using ROES or CPQ Links multiple styles may be offered on the same job. Otherwise, one style per job.
Customizable “strip proof” now available for customer’s shooting a one image program but wanting to offer various effects of the same pose using the ROES proofing service. The strip proof is 4 images with the first two “effects” chosen by the photographer. The last two “effects” are fixed. The variations can be any of the vignette styles offered under “Options” as seen on the ROES program. This product can be found on the School and Events ROES software under Proof Print Services in “sizes” and then “strip proof 1”.
Summer School/Events Meeting Highlights - June 18th, 2007
At our school and events meeting we introduced CPQ “Links” software to match school data w/images is now available with several options, web site building, online image hosting and sales and new web products now available including photo mugs, coasters, puzzles, license plates and mouse pads.
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