aussiecameras Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 Its it just me or have print volumes of standard prints turned the corner after many years and now showing a steady healthy increase? What is happening around the world? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fujilab Posted November 17, 2011 Report Share Posted November 17, 2011 We are seeing good growth in order numbers but overall print volume has only risen a bit. We're seeing far more 1-2 print orders (which is OK because we charge accordingly) but not so much of the big 600+ ones like we had a few years back. Every now and then a photo shop closes and that helps out a bit. Just need the likes to Tesco to stop using discount photos as a way to get punters in. Thanks Tesco (and HP) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor brown Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Don't just thank Tesco's and HP, credit must also be given to Gretag and Photo-Me who initially supplied them Wet Labs at little more than cost price, (50% less than we paid) Also credit to the Paper and Chemical suppliers who gave Extra Large Discounts. And bet your bottom dollar Asda got a similar deal Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noritsuvet Posted November 18, 2011 Report Share Posted November 18, 2011 Well put Trevor. Interesting to see Asda seems to be slowly getting out of photo entirely. Volumes are steady for us. Hoping for a good Christmas as we have lots of customers that seem to wait till last minute before getting all their years pictures printed. Happens every December - fingers crossed for this year too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris C Posted November 19, 2011 Report Share Posted November 19, 2011 Recent future source data shows that instant print volumes should still grow until at least 2013 at which point they stay level so it is not all bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Amies Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 Well put Trevor. Interesting to see Asda seems to be slowly getting out of photo entirely. Volumes are steady for us. Hoping for a good Christmas as we have lots of customers that seem to wait till last minute before getting all their years pictures printed. Happens every December - fingers crossed for this year too Sorry, but where is your evidence for that please? ASDA heavily invested in photo kiosks, and supply a good line of photo gift items. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilT Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 3 of our local large tescos have pulled labs out of store and they have been replaced with opticians ! Every little helps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Amies Posted November 21, 2011 Report Share Posted November 21, 2011 I saw my local Tescos take away their lab about 3-4 years ago, the area was given over to magazines, then after a refit it is mobile phones. Mind you they never seemed to be going a great job with it when they did. They put the desk in between the fags/lottery and customer service. I asked hen once for a tarriff of their services and they looked at me like I had come from space. A local Sainsbury's ( a big one) had a brainwave and moved the photo section from teh front of teh store near the tills, al teh way to the back of the store. You wouldn't know it was there, anyone would think they deliberatley wanted it to fail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Amies Posted December 14, 2011 Report Share Posted December 14, 2011 You know what, my local Tesco has a HP kiosk , and I swear I have never seen anyone using it. Given it's positioning in the store - at the end of the checkouts, and between the customer service and the newspapers, I am not surprised. If you can do 1-2 prints but also pull them in on photo gifts, etc, then you will be offering more than the supermarket, plus a better level of customer service, one hopes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXLtdLab Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 I'm not sure if Kiosks are included or not, and I believe this figure is only in the United States not North America including Canada and Mexico, but I've read print volumes declined roughly 50% (inkjet/dryprint included) from 2007 to late 2011. I need to find the article of "Picture Business" to see if I can find other years, more specific information, but, overall volume is only going down. If it is picking up at your business you are the exception that is testing the rule. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXLtdLab Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 It's less than seven weeks since LAST Christmas and you're already hoping for the next one? Not promising news (unless you're still anticipating jobs from this past holiday and I'm misreading you. . .) :-/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Dave Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 XXLtd, Those 2 guys you replied to have just copied bits of other posts from this (and other) threads. I would just ignore them. There's a pattern with their user name.... see it ?? Scroll UP and see the original posts they copied. Now click KiethStAuRK's user name, and click the posts they've made. In 1 day he/she/it did the same thing in several other threads. JackSsMiths - December 13, 2011, 11:29pm copied: fujilab - November 17, 2011, 11:43am KiethStAuRK - January 26, 2012, 10:57pm copied: fujilab - November 17, 2011, 11:43am JacKbaEn - February 9, 2012, 12:22am copied: noritsuvet - November 18, 2011, 1:24pm Cheers from the West Coast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony.T Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 I'll keep an eye on that - thanks Big Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeilT Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 All sorted Big Dave, indeed human spam bots, accounts have been exterminated and post removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XXLtdLab Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 (Quoting "Jurassic Park") "And now I'm sitting by myself, ahhhh talking to myself. . ." :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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