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31 March 2020

Your photo book print orders during the Corona pandemic 

The FotoInsight team wishes all customers and contacts good health and defences to get through the current epidemic.


We would like to inform you that we are still here for you. Designing your photo book now – perhaps to remember the good times or the last holidays – can provide a positive distraction and a little ray of hope. Design your photo products as usual and we will deliver your prints by post.

In light of the CoVid-19 pandemic, extensive measures have been taken in the printing plants to protect all employees in the best possible way and to maintain health and the availability of our photo print products. Even while shops are closed, all photo products can still be ordered from http://FotoInsight.co.uk (UK) and http://fotoinsight.ie/ (Ireland). The delivery takes place as usual directly to your home. Order now for delivery before Easter.

FotoInsight wishes you the best possible Passover and Easter holidays.



Your FotoInsight team




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07 January 2016

Home Decoration Takes a new Dimension Online 

The resolution of digital cameras is rising constantly. Many digital photographs could impress at home or in an office meeting room, when printed as a laminated poster or a stretched canvas in a floating frame. With the right image it makes a worthy present.

FotoInsight, a specialist serving amateur and professional photographers alike, prints canvases in different sizes from 20x30 cm / 12”x8” (minimum resolution 800 x 1100 pixel) to 60x80 cm / 32”x24” (2500 x 3300 pixel recommended). FotoInsight states that it uses man made optimised fibres 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.


NEW: Laminated and framed poster prints

While a photo canvas print will be stretched over a wooden frame, FotoInsight can also mount posters onto a "Deco-block“, specially made to hang the laminated and framed posters straight onto a wall. The so called Deco-block was originally developed to hang art prints. It simulates the wood frame used to stretch a canvas. FotoInsight laminates the poster prints onto the block and then seales the surface with a layer of matt UV-protection vanish. The sealed surface warrants a much improved humidity and UV-resistance. The website provides a preview of the poster to help choose among a range of Nielsen wood frames.


Collage Poster Tool

With the new version of software its “Designer” FotoInsight provides tools to create collage posters. For a collage up to 98 images can be layered to form a single poster print, which optionally can come laminated and framed.

Framed poster and canvas prints elevate holiday snaps to impressive works of printed art. The fine structure of a canvas lends an artistic impression and adds depth when stretched over a 1/2“ deep frame. Large, framed photo prints become a unique pieces of art and are an ideal present, most appropriate to decorate a home or an imposing office space. Photo canvas printing is also well suited for digital art created with image editing software tools and filters. FotoInsight's Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: "The traditional canvas print has received a completely new importance. At FotoInsight we offer the high print quality for impressive prints.“ Unlike a poster behind a glass frame a canvas print, with its fine structure looks thorough and avoids reflections. "Quality is our priority. All materials we use are subject to extensive testing and are guaranteed by their manufacturers to last 100 years. This guarantee extends to poster printing on real photographic paper as well as to the canvas print", emphasises Dr. Rolf Hollander, CEO of FotoInsight's production partner and Europe's largest photo finisher.

Convenient and flexible

Ordering framed prints in FotoInsight's Deco Shop is as easy as with traditional photographic prints, poster or photo books. A clearly structured overview of formats and costs with their respective recommended resolution come together with a user friendly interface. FotoInsight’s Head of Communications states: “The mounted photo canvas is an ideal present. And the collage poster feature is a great addition for families.” The hi-tech production processes enable FotoInsight to provide the framed laminated poster prints from £17.99 (postage & packaging from £2.80) – prices well below of what used to be expected from framed prints, make it an ideal present.




Contact information

FotoInsight Ltd.
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 208 1449369
pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk 

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22 April 2015

The photo lab that is fishing for Snap dollars 


Another bite at Snapfish


‘District Photo’ is about to snap-up online photo storage to print site Snapfish from Hewlett-Packard for an undisclosed sum, reports the Financial Times under the headline “HP throws photo service Snapfish overboard”. Palo Alto, California based HP has been trying for some time to spin off its printing business from the rest for the hardware and service operations. As the news of the Snapfish deal broke, HP shares fell another one percent on the New York stock exchange. ‘District Photo Inc’ of Beltville is associated with Devon based ‘Harrier LLC’ with which it has been operating ‘Truprint’ and is serving the budget end of the British photo printing market. 



For ‘District Photo Inc’, a 65 year old company, it’s another bite at Snapfish, which it originally acquired in late 2001, when District Photo was struggling to digest the transition from an analog film-developing lab to a digital lab. According to SiliconNews, HP had acquired Snapfish in 2005 for US$300 million. 



Business Insider: After years of trying, HP sells Snapfish



It is worth remembering that HP has used its once deep pockets for acquisitions in the past. In 2011 HP paid a 79% premium to acquire ‘Autonomy Corporation plc’ of Cambridge for £7.4 billion. The Wall Street Journal reports that “H-P” last month agreed to buy ‘Aruba Networks Inc’ for US$2.7 billion.



HP Unhooks Snapfish



Sources familiar with the Snapfish the deal suggest that it covers staff and technology, but will bind ‘District Photo’ to HP printing equipment. 



HP acquired Ness Ziona, Israel based ‘Indigo Digital Press’ in 2001 for just $680 million, which is now the dominant film and plate free j-i-t print process, popular with printers of photo books. ‘Indigo’ claims to have 4000 customers for its digital presses worldwide.


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16 June 2014

Fragmented photo print industry undergoing concentration through acquisitions 

FotoInsight takes over smaller rival website www.printing-1.co.uk
Cambridge. 16 June 2014. - In 2007, IITM LLP started a service for the creation and print of personalized photo books, canvas prints and photographic wall calendars under the name ‘Printing-1’. This web presence expanded into a number of European countries in seven languages. The business has now been taken over by FotoInsight Ltd. for an undisclosed sum and the www.printing-1.co.uk websites redirect to http://fotoinsight.co.uk.

For IITM LLP Designated Partner CM states: ‘The online photo printing industry is experiencing rapid concentration. We are confident that printing-1 customer’s will like the award winning software and print quality that FotoInsight offers, which has won top awards in review by consumer magazines, the photographic press across the UK and Europe, as well as by the Gadget Show.’

Welcome Voucher
Celebrating the successful acquisition of Printing-1 FotoInsight is issuing welcome vouchers. Photo enthusiasts who now download the FotoInsight Designer software and order their first real photo book from FotoInsight before 30 September 2014 get £9 off by using the voucher code PRINT1UK (minimum order value £25).

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26 October 2012

Best photo calendar print service in Germany 

Cambridge Company FotoInsight Ltd is the best online photo print service in Germany according to Europe’s largest consumer advice magazine “test”.  

Cambridge. 26 Oct 2012. - Europe’s largest consumer test and advice magazine “test”, issued by the product testing foundation “Stiftung Warentest” has tested glossy photo calendars from 12 online photographic print services in its October 2012 edition and FotoInsight Ltd of Cambridge came out on top.

FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “FotoInsight’s export sales have consistently risen from 70% in 2008 and 2009 to 83% of revenues the current year. Our entire growths is due to increased sales to the more dynamic economies in Scandinavia and in the Eurozone.
FotoInsight Ltd prints with CEWE COLOR AG in Germany and CEWE COLOR LTD in the UK. Generally photo services printing with CEWE COLOR were recognised by the testing foundation to offer a bigger choice and a higher and more consistent print quality than other photo services tested [source: www.test.de/Fotokalender-Zwoelf-Fotodienste-im-Test-4446633-0/].

Mr Brumann adds: “The photo printing business is very sensitive to the consumer’s willingness to holiday and spend. It lags the economic cycle by about six months. FotoInsight is unable to rely on its UK and Irish business alone, needing growth in markets where the economy is still growing. Companies, regardless of their size, should treat the Common Market as what it says in its name. Though this may require hiring staff able to speak other European languages, which the British school system is increasingly failing to provide.

Export driven businesses tend to be run by more flexible business people, which often allows them to thrive in recessions; but Brumann warns: “Only try to sell in Europe if your quality is top-notch.”  



Note:
FotoInsight offers British and European consumers easy to use, online photographic printing services and innovative photo print products like photo books, photographic paper albums, personalised Advent calendars, individual calendar prints and many photo gift ideas.


 

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19 February 2009

How to give personal memories as a Mother's Day Present 

Photo presents like photo books and canvas prints are popular for preserving personal memories in style. At popular occasions like Mother's Day or a birthday photo gifts are a present as personal as the relationship.


London. 19 February 2009. Mother's Day is a day honoring mothers, celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent (three weeks before Easter Sunday). Mothering Sunday is believed to have originated from the 16th century Christian practice of visiting one's mother church annually, which meant that most mothers would be reunited with their children on this day. Most historians believe that young apprentices and young women in servitude were released by their masters that weekend in order to visit their families. As a result of secularisation, it is now principally used to show appreciation to one's mother, although it is still recognised in the historical sense by some churches, with attention paid to Mary the mother of Jesus Christ as well as the traditional concept 'Mother Church'.



In the United States, Mother's Day was inspired by the British day after the American Civil War. However, it was intended by social activists as a call to unite women against war in a Mother's Day for Peace. From there it took only very few years to turn Mother's Day into one of the commercially most important events of the year and to spread around the world the idea of giving presents as a sign of attention and respect to one's mother. The ideal mother's day gift should be as personal as the relationship. Photo memory gifts often combine the useful or pleasant with personalisation. The online digital photo service Printing-1 drops the delivery charge in time for Mother's day for its photo book and photo canvas printing service. Photo book and canvas print orders placed between the 2nd and 15th of March will be free of delivery and processing charges, saving £4.90 per order.



The Printing-1 Photobook Software for Windows PC and Apple MacOS

According to Printing-1 during the photobook software development special emphasis was laid on flexibility and user comfort. The page numbering style can be chosen for each individual page. Instead of a limiting automatic layout assistant the application provides templates to position images precisely easily. Printing-1 also offers silk matt and glossy paper and its software allows switching between different types of binding and book formats at any time during the design process.


Not only printed photo albums but also online photo sharing

Individual photobooks can be saved online as projects. Before placing a print order, the photo book layout file is uploaded to Printing-1 first. There the photo book can be shared free of charge with friends and family before ordering prints; which is particularly practical when after a party or family event others pay for their own copy. Sending printed memory books directly to friends and family abroad (Europe or the USA) also makes a very personal gift and saves postage.



Flexible and convenient

Printing-1 offers a Windows and Mac OS compatible, online photo service, which can be used with photos from any digital camera or camera phone. Printing-1 specialises in photo books and photo canvas printing only.  The digital photo service Printing-1 delivers in the UK and most European countries as well as the USA within two weeks of ordering online. Photo books professionally printed from own digital photographs are on their way to replace the traditional photo album. Apart from the Pocket and the Maxi format Printing-1 is offering three further intermediate sizes.


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Printing-1 UK – http://www.printing-1.co.uk

Printing-1 Deutschland – http://www.printing-1.de

Printing-1 France - http://www.printing-1.fr

Printing-1 España - http://www.printing-1.es

Printing-1 Italia - http://www.printing-1.it

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Printing-1 Background

Printing-1 started in October 2006 in Cambridge as a British-German joint-venture. The Internet-Service is specialising in high quality, modern photo print products like photo books and photo canvas.




Press Contact


International IT Marketing Limited,

Catalina Martinez, Head of Communication, printing-1

London, UK

Email: pr (at) printing-1.com

Tel. +44 (0)20 7617 7469

Communiqués Logiciel, Internet, tecnologie: http://fr.IITM.info/

Novedades software, Internet, telecomunicación: http://es.IITM.info/

Photo Industry Blog: http://IITM.info/



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14 July 2008

Hi-Tech Photo Canvas Export Across Europe 


Software makes it easy to create impressive artistic prints from manipulated digital images. This has helped producers of quality, large format canvas printing services. FotoInsight of Cambridge is launching its online canvas service in France, Spain and is now selling in 32 countries.

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.”

FotoInsight, a specialist serving amateur and professional photographers alike, prints canvas in sizes from 20x30 cm (minimum resolution 800 x 1.100 Pixel) to 60x80 cm (2.500 x 3.300 pixel recommended). FotoInsight states that it uses special synthetic fibres 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 a lower price for the first time.

"Quality is our priority. All materials we use are subject to extensive testing and are guaranteed by their manufacturers to last 100 years. This guarantee extends to photo printing on real photographic paper as well as to the canvas print", emphasises Dr. Rolf Hollander, CEO of FotoInsight's production partner and Europe's largest photo finisher.

Frame mounted canvas prints convert holiday snaps into large format artwork. The fine structure of the fabric creates additional depth, and the print extending over the frame generates a 3D effect on the wall. As the durable fabrics are fully mounted no additional frame is required, the image can be put straight onto a wall. It is a great present suitable for the home as well as the office. Photo prints on canvas are also well suited for digital art created with image editing software and filters. FotoInsight's Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “Image editing software helps to create impressive digital art for which the output of an inkjet printer can’t do justice. Digital editing software creates new, impressive applications for mounted canvases.” Compared to images behind glass frames, a photo screen print or canvas shows more detail and a fine structure. Due to the fabric folding around the frame it also shows greater depth.



Contact information

FotoInsight Ltd.
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 208 1449369
pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk 

Keywords: Digital photography, photo on canvas, textile print, photoscreen, digital photo service online, mounted canvas photo, photo printing, digital art, image editing, FotoInsight.co.uk

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08 July 2008

Printing-1 Premium Photo Book spreading across 32” wide double pages 

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.


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 the printed photo album 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.

The new formats from Printing-1 at a glance:

- premium: H12“ x W16“ / 40 x 30cm as hard cover with up to 250 pages

- panorama: H8“ x W12“ / 29,7 x 21cm (A4 landscape) as hard cover with up to 250 pages

- maxi: 12“ x 12“ / 30 x 30cm as hard cover with up to 250 pages

The Printing-1 range includes five sizes, starting with small photo booklets (Pocket: (H10.5 cm x W14.8 cm), over A4 size books to the 12”x12” Maxi format photo book, all formats are now also available as photo calendars. Printing-1 uses a particularly strong binding process for the hardcover photobooks or linen hardcover, softcover or spiral and can therefore offer larger books with more pages than other photo book services. Hardcover photo books start with 36 pages and can include up to 250 pages in a hard cover. The Printing-1 photo book covers come in a choice of colours and can be edited with photographs and text.

The Printing-1 Photo Book Software for Windows PC and Apple MacOS

Photo book software for Windows and Apple Mac OS can be downloaded for free from the Printing-1 website. Images can be scaled and positioned freely. The page numbering style can be turned on or off for each individual page. The application provides templates to position images precisely and easily. Printing-1 also offers silk matt and glossy paper and its software allows switching between different types of binding and book formats at any time during the design process.

Not only printed photo albums but also online photo sharing

Individual photo books can be saved and shared online at http://www.printing-1.co.uk as projects. Before placing a print order, the photo book layout file is uploaded to Printing-1 first. There the photo book can be shared free of charge with friends and family before ordering prints. That is particularly practical when after a party or family event others want to pay for their own copy. Sending a printed memory book directly to friends and family abroad (Europe or the USA) also makes a very personal gift and saves on postage costs.

The digital photo service Printing-1 delivers in the UK and most European countries as well as the USA within two weeks of ordering online. Photo books professionally printed from own digital photographs are a great step forward from the traditional photo album.

Flexible and convenient

Printing-1 offers a Windows and MacOS compatible online photo service, which can be used with photos from any digital camera or camera phone. Printing-1 specialises in photo books and photo canvas printing only. The professional printing processes allow Printing-1 to offer its photo booklet in the “pocket” format with ring- or laminated binding from £7.95 – plus p&p £4.90 (orders over £100 ship free). Between the Pocket and the Premium format, Printing-1 offers further five intermediate sizes.



Printing-1 Background

Printing-1 started in October 2006 as a British-German joint-venture. The Internet-Service is specialising in high quality, modern photo print products like photo books and photo canvas. The service is fully compatible with Windows and Mac PCs.



Press Contact

IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews, images, NFR versions for review and discuss opportunities for software reviews, cover mounts, incentives, OEM versions.

IITM LLP
London, UK

Email: pr (at) printing-1.com
Tel. +44 (0)20 3286 7469

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29 November 2007

Printing-1 now with Photobook Calendars 

The new version of the Printing-1 photo book software provides new layouts and calendar templates. The demanding photographer or designer on Windows or Apple PCs can now create professionally printed photo book calendars.


Photo books are the creative gift option this Season. More and more often, when the camera or mobile phone cam shutter snaps, images do not get printed. Instead, photo enthusiasts create digital photo albums to get them professionally printed and bound. To display the best snaps around the year, Printing-1 offers now calendar templates in its photo book editing software.


Photo Books are a popular present for friends and family because they combine style, quality and personal expression in each individual and unique book. With the new photo book calendars the online service is entering the also very popular gift category of personalised calendars, with the quality and platform independence (i.e. the photo book software runs on PC as well as on Apple Mac) associated with Printing-1. It’s Management is preparing for a rush of photo book and calendar orders in the coming days and states that orders placed by the 6th of December can still be delivered in the UK and Ireland in time for Christmas.



Printing-1 offers with the photobook software upgrade v3.5 tools to create colour schemes, which can be saved as templates. In addition the number of layout templates has been expanded. Images can be positioned quickly and precisely using templates and can be repositioned freely for a scrapbook design style. Frames can be defined individually for each image but images can also be spread frameless over single or double pages.



The Printing-1 range includes five sizes, starting with small photo booklets (Pocket: (H10.5 cm x W14.8 cm), over A4 size books to the 12”x12” Maxi format photo book, all now also as photo calendars. Printing-1 uses a particularly strong binding process for the hardcover books or linen hardcover, soft cover or spiral and can therefore offer larger books with more pages than other photo book services. Hardcover photo books start with 36 pages and can include up to 144 pages with soft or hardcover. The Printing-1 photo covers come in a choice of colours and can be edited with photographs and text.



The Printing-1 Photo Book Software for Windows PC and Apple MacOS

According to Printing-1 during the software development special emphasis was laid on flexibility and user comfort. Images can be scaled and positioned freely. The page numbering style can be turned on or off for each individual page. Instead of a limiting automatic layout assistant the application provides templates to position images precisely and easily. Printing-1 also offers silk matt and glossy paper and its software allows switching between different types of binding and book formats at any time during the design process.



Not only printed photo albums but also online photo sharing

Individual photo books can be saved and shared online at http://printing-1.co.uk as projects. Before placing a print order, the photo book layout file is uploaded to Printing-1 first. There the ditial photo album can be shared free of charge with friends and family before ordering prints. That is particularly practical when after a party or family event others want to pay for their own copy. Sending a printed photo albums directly to friends and family abroad (Europe or the USA) also makes a very personal gift and saves on postage costs.

The digital photo service Printing-1 delivers in the UK and most European countries as well as the USA within two weeks of ordering online. Photo books professionally printed from own digital photographs are on their way to replace the traditional photo album.



Flexible and convenient

Printing-1 offers a Windows and MacOS compatible online photo service, which can be used with photos from any digital camera or camera phone. Printing-1 specialises in photo books and photo canvas printing only. The professional printing processes allow Printing-1 to offer its photo booklet in the “pocket” format with ring- or laminated binding from £7.95 – plus p&p £4.90 (orders over £100 ship free). Apart from the Pocket and the Maxi format, Printing-1 is offering three further intermediate sizes.

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Printing-1 Background

Printing-1 started in October 2006 in Cambridge as a British-German joint-venture. The Internet-Service is specialising in high quality, modern photo print products like photo books and photo canvas printing.

Press Contact


IITM is a specialist agency and will be delighted to arrange interviews, images, NFR versions for review and discuss opportunities for software reviews, cover mounts, incentives, OEM versions.



IITM LLP
Head of Communication, printing-1
London, UK
Email: pr (at) printing-1.com
Tel. +44 (0)20 7617 7469

Keywords: photo book calendars, printed photo albums, book from own digital images, new products, photo book test, photographic gift items, photo printing, Printing-1.

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20 November 2007

FotoInsight starts the Calendar 2008 Season with new, larger Photo Calendars 

A professionally printed calendar with own digital images must rank among the most convenient personalised gift ideas among for friends and family. A UK photo service is expanding this idea with a greater choice of calendars.


FotoInsight is growing and the size of its photo print products seems to grow with the company. Posters, canvas printing and the photo book XL format are now followed by a new, larger photo calendar format. The largest photographic calendar is exclusive to the FotoInsight Pro software; the use of an offline ordering software client became necessary to ensure a safe upload of larger images to the lab. With the FotoInsight Pro photo calendar and photo book software comes a range of editing tools, which internet browser could not 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 a 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 personalised photo calendars year after year for friends and family.

The resolution of digital images is constantly increasing and professional laboratories now achieve super sharp prints in large formats. “With the improvements in digital cameras it started making sense to offer larger photo calendars”, says FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann and adds: “We do not limit the print area for images on the monthly calendar page. Photos can cover the whole page and the calendar template can be layered over images.

The number of photos taken has been increasing sharply, with the share of those being printed dropping constantly. With the technological advancements in screens and photo-sharing the user prints special images for special occasions; quality expectations towards print products and photo gifts are on the rise. Photo calendar print from digital images is ‘the fashion’. A photographic calendar ordered through the online service FotoInsight, gets printed on the latest generation of Indigo printing equipment. In this process so called ElectroInk, with particles 1µm to 2µm small, is applied. The reduced particle size of the toner creates a higher perceived resolution of the printed image, cleaner edges and finer, finer, more adherent layers than traditional printing methods.

Sticking in is so yesteryear – today it’s professionally printed calendars


FotoInsight is updating it’s photographic calendar range just in time for the year-end gift shopping season, with photo gifts made from the users own digital images, which the online service delivers professionally printed on 250 g/m² paper. Instead of sticking images in, digital image files allow for an individual design and professional print, on a variety of personalised gifts like photo mugs, shirts or photobooks. FotoInsight’s Managing Director comments “FotoInsight specialises in photographic gift items. The new generation of photo calendars will resolve many people’s problems in finding unique gift ideas.”

Range for photo calendar printing at FotoInsight :

Year planner                              NEW     £  4.99

Table calendar                           NEW     £  8.99




A2 Wall Calendar                     New       £ 34.99

A3 Wall Calendar                        NEW     £16.99

A4 Wall Calendar                                    £  9.99

Kitchen calendar                        NEW     £  6.99

Wall appointment calendar                     £14.99

Desktop appointment calendar               £  9.99

Picture Pairs game                                £  9.99

Postage & packing per order              £  2.99






Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk

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18 September 2007

New Glass Mug with Photo 

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


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. Photo mugs are 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 FotoInsight or through the FotoInsight Designer 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 photo is as smooth and shiny as silk and also longer lasting than with other processes.

The Cambridge company FotoInsight is known as an online photo print service and for its poster, photo calendar and photo book printing as well as for its large range of photographic gift items, in which the glass mug is a new addition. The range of picture mugs also includes a ceramic coffee mug and a large traditional beer mug. The new glass photo mug is dishwasher resistant, 9.5 cm tall with a diameter of 8.2 cm and costs £5.99 (p&p £2.99) to anywhere in the UK, Ireland or Europe.




Convenience and flexibility

FotoInsight offers an independent online photo service, fully flexible to be used with images from any digital camera or camera phone. According to FotoInsight’s management the online service offers superior quality at lower costs when compared to inkjet printing. FotoInsight offers an extensive array of award-winning photo print and photographic gift items for the consumer, business, photography, and graphic arts markets. From Cambridge, FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments: “Photographic memories must never fade. Our technology is smarter, providing long lasting photo gifts in superior quality.”

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About FotoInsight Limited

FotoInsight Ltd was founded in 2003 in Cambridge and runs an easy to use digital photo processing service, offering an extensive array of award-winning photographic print and photo gift items as well as the photobook, photo posters, photo calendars and photos canvas prints and mug printing. Customers benefit from patented development processes and the experience of Europe’s largest independent photo lab with an installed capacity of 18 million prints per day. Photos ordered through FotoInsight are developed in one of 19 strategically located, state of the art photo labs, employing 3000 staff, with an output of over 3 billion prints per year.

Contact information

FotoInsight Ltd.
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk


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24 May 2007

FotoInsight entices to the photo book experience printing a free booklet for first time users 

Printing photo books from own pictures is arguably the fastest growing product in the photo processing industry. In view of the popularity of photo books in the USA and Europe it is surprising that they still live a niche existence in Britain. One of the self proclaimed European leaders in personal photo book printing, the Cambridge company FotoInsight Limited is offering a £5.99 photo booklet print for free to showcase its quality as a trial offer to new customers of the photobook service at FotoInsight (through an £8 voucher the remaining cost including delivery is £1.79).

In the year 2006 over 3 Million individual photo books and photo calendars have been printed by photo labs and printers world wide. Andrew White, Internet Sales Manager at FotoInsight production partner, explains: “We are a little bit behind Germany and France, where photobooks are huge. You only have to show somebody one, though and they immediately want to know how to do it. Therefore this trial will be UK exclusive.” FotoInsight hopes to provide the opportunity to trial its photo book editing software and experience the complete liberty in the positioning and layering of images, transparent texts, and choice of fonts offered by the "cewe photo book printing" software.



A trial with a free printed photo booklet

Managing Director Klaas Brumann explains why FotoInsight is giving away a free photo booklet print: “We detected that one of the greatest barriers to ordering a photo book is that people expect it to be complicated. A common statement in a photo book test is how surprisingly easy it actually is. With the £8 voucher we want to give everyone the opportunity to test the software and printing quality.” In comparison, a photo book is cheaper than photo prints. Conveniently, it is the time of the year, where such a trial print may serve as a very personal Father’s Day photo gift.

In time for Father’s Day

Photo gifts for Father’s Day are left late and less is being spent than on Mother’s Day. With Father’s spending a growing amount of time with their children this may change. To express appreciation for all Dad has to offer it is good to ask him what he was like growing up and what made him who he is today; asking him about his work — his expertise can be unexpectedly valuable; joining Dad in pursuit of his interests and hobbies. The FotoInsight Managing Director and father of two, Klaas Brumann states: “If photographs of great father-child-events like a ball game, building a tool shed, or an adventure holiday are available, those moments are worth to be immortalised in a printed photo album or booklet. And we are proud to printed photo booklets this within reach of ever digital camera user.”



Notes

After applying online through a pop-up window £8 voucher will. A FotoInsight photo booklet contains 26 pages (plus editable cover), each 14 cm wide and 13 cm high (5"x5.5") worth £5.99. P&p is £3.80, the final cost of a 26 page booklet to the consumer after applying the voucher is £1.79. The voucher is time limited has no alternative cash value. The software to edit "cewe photo books" is now available as a free download from http://fotoinsight.co.uk/cewe-photo-books.html.





Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd.
9 Moore Close, Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk

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31 March 2006

Can online photo sharing be free? 

Former director claims Kodak mislead customers on the quality of online photo sharing.
“A former employee has accused Eastman Kodak Co. of illegally tampering with the quality of customers' digital photos and making false advertising claims, according to a statement issued Wednesday (29 March 2006) by the former employee's attorney” reports DylanMcGrath, business editor at AP. A competing online photo printing service, FotoInsight of Cambridge, UK distances itself from unlimited, free online photo hosting. FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann states: “Providing quality prints for a few cents or pence does not combine with unlimited online storage of multi megabyte image files. FotoInsight only offers uncompressed, printing quality online archiving. We have always stated that this can only be maintained with an honest time limit.” 

According to FotoInsight, providing unlimited online photo sharing at print quality is unsustainable with ever larger digital camera image files. FotoInsight provides an online archive option with print orders only, limited to one month, after which users may pay for an extension. Klaas Brumann comments: “Not everything on the internet can be free. There are plenty of sites specializing in online photo sharing, which is a feasible service as long as there is a tap on the size. Ofoto's (Kodak) business idea to use print quality photo files for unlimited hosting is wrong”.

According to FotoInsight, providing photo sharing with free basic features is feasible if financed through the sale of add-on premium services or advertising, as long as the image files remain small. Such online photo sharing sites follow a very different business model from photo printing services like FotoInsight, which specialise in real photographic paper prints and photo gifts requiring print resolution jpegs. “FotoInsight has never understood how Ofoto could accept unlimited storage and online access of multi megabyte jpegs for unlimited time. With Kodak acquiring Ofoto they will have to deal with the accusation by their former director of engineering Maya Raber, to have planned to “irreversibly damage photos”.” FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments from Cambridge: “FotoInsight is proud to facilitate the sharing of photographic memories with a printed photo book or online, across geographic boundaries. Our services endeavour to provide long term quality solutions.”

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FotoInsight Ltd.
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype FotoInside
Tel. +44 8700 114911
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24 March 2006

FotoInsight's New Digital Photo Software 

FotoInsight is making it easier to get real photographic paper prints, greeting cards
CeBIT, Hannover. 23 March 2006. – FotoInsight.co.uk announces the release of its new photo software package called Home Photo Service. According to FotoInsight the application resolves eight common problems of digital photography. During the first three months FotoInsight is distributing free copies off its website: http://fotoinsight.co.uk/designer-software.html 

Digital photography’s popularity has already overtaken analogue colour photography. While photographic prints on inkjet printers still lack behind in quality and price the digital format has taken consumers and business users by storm because of the ease and speed at which images can be stored and transferred across networks including the internet. Once the hard disk is filling up with hi-res images FotoInsight’s Home Photo Service software helps to:

1.- escape lack of hard disk space and high storage costs.

2.- back-up photo collections onto CD-R.

3.- edit, turn, flip, crop digital images, remove red eyes and more.

4.- convert image file to jpeg or other formats.

5.- print on real photographic paper at the same prices as with traditional (analogue) photo printing (from 9p per print).

6.- organise image collections and albums and to find images back.

7.- create slide shows of important events or holiday pictures.

8.- be creative: Print photo calendars, frames, greeting cards.

FotoInsight.co.uk’s new “Home Photo Service Software” resolves all of this and makes ordering prints online really easy. If the internet connection is interrupted during transmission the application will automatically try to communicate with the server to start where the upload was interrupted, without user intervention or the risk of loosing of data etc.



Edit, crop, rotate, zoom etc

It currently is free. FotoInsight is introducing the application with no time limit as a free download. But the free download introduction will last three months only, by then FotoInsight hopes the application will have received many commendations and plans to start charging for the software as for any other image editing application. Free copies (Windows PC or Mac) can be downloaded from:

http://fotoinsight.ie/designer-software.html.

FotoInsight’s Managing Director Klaas Brumann comments from Cambridge: “Photographic memories must never fade. FotoInsight is proud to provide the software that will help to preserve memories in vivid colours.”



Contact information

FotoInsight Ltd.
Klaas Brumann, Managing Director
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype FotoInsight
Tel. +44 8700 114911

Press Contact:

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17 October 2005

Inkjet printing still far from matching 

Inkjet printing still far from matching online photo printing, despite 30% drop in price

The cost of photo printing on computer printers has dropped up to 30 percent in the last few months thanks to a savage price war, reports the New York Times. The cost is still close to £0.30 / 50cents per print according to product reviewers at Consumer Reports. In the meantime, the price of printing a 4 by 6 inch snapshot at an online photo lab, like FotoInsight is as low as 12pence (FotoInsight.ie 18cents). “At those prices, why bother printing at home?” asks the online publication Slashdot.org in a recent article and continues: “Consumers seem to be saying just that.” For the 12 months ended in July, home printing accounted for just 48 percent of the 7.7 billion digital prints made, down sharply from 64 percent in the previous 12 months, according to the Photo Marketing Association International, a trade group for retailers and camera makers. The overall growth of digital photo printing is up about 68 percent from the year-earlier period - and online digital photo processors clearly have the advantage, which some photo processing services like FotoInsight.co.uk of Cambridge, UK intend to expand their advantage, extending the product range to photo albums, four different styles of photo calendars, a photo book, photo shirts, five different photo mugs, jigsaw puzzles in two sizes and many more photo gift ideas for businesses and families.




Information about FotoInsight.com
FotoInsight Limited runs a custom made and easy to use print processing service. Customers benefit from patented development processes and the experience of Europe’s largest independent photo lab with an installed capacity of 18 million prints per day. Photos ordered through www.fotoinsight.com are developed in one of 20 strategically located, state of the art photo labs, employing 4000 staff, with an output of over 3 billion prints per year.

Contact information
FotoInsight Ltd. Klaas Brumann, Managing Director
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP, UK
Skype fotoinside
Tel. +44 8700 114911 Fax. +44 8715 601675
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24 February 2004

Press Release: FotoInsight helps to preserve memories


Preserving the most memorable moments in life

Cambridge, UK, 25 Feb. 2004. More and more photographs of life's special occasions are preserved in digital format. Many early adapters of digital photography are now finding their hard disks and CD-R's have vanished, while their ancestors' 100 years old paper photographs remain well preserved. To avoid lost film, lost data and to preserve the family's most memorable moments the online digital photo-processing specialist FotoInsight Limited of Cambridge is expanding and diversifying into the birthing, baby album and family photo printing market.

At a new specially created website life's most memorable moments can be printed on real photographic paper from digital camera images. FotoInsight uses patented technology for best cutting to size and long lasting colours with higher perceived resolution. Readers are invited to test the quality with five free prints (p&p at only 95p) from www.fotoinsight.co.uk/.

Processing digital photos from the comfort of your own home shiny colours guaranteed to last starts from 15 pence per single print or 10 pence per print ordering 25 or more.

With FotoInsight photo printing every digital camera user can load full size image files into an online photo archive featuring online photo albums, photo sharing, e-greeting cards and a superior slide show. All reprints ordered from the archive come in full FotoInsight quality.


Contact Information
FotoInsight Limited
9 Moore Close
Cambridge, CB4 1ZP
Email pr (at) fotoinsight.co.uk
http://fotoinsight.co.uk/
Tel. +44 (0)8700 114911

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