Your Digital Life

Sure, the one hour photo lab of old is long extinct, but Polaroid is back with a 21st century take: the Fotobar. Step inside a Fotobar and you’ll be able to transform your photos into a wide variety of wall art — from metal prints to posters, framed canvases, acrylic prints, bamboo prints and even photos-on-Lucite. [...]

While photo kiosks have used touch-screens for some time now, Fujifilm has introduced a new model that uses Microsoft’s Surface – a “smart” display that lets you manipulate your images much like a tablet display (with finger flicks, pinches, etc.). You load photos into the kiosk just as you always would, using a USB drive, [...]

If you like to print your photos in black and white, there’s some bad news on the horizon. Ilford, makers of black-and-white photo papers announced they’re raising the price of their Monochrome Papers by 20 percent. It’s not clear whether Ilford’s customers (photo labs and other professional printers) are going to pass along those price [...]

Hate lines? Love photo kiosks? Well 30 Minute Photos in Irvine, California has set up a rather clever solution: you can reserve a time slot at one of their Kodak Picture Kiosks online. If you’ve got a particularly high-trafficked kiosk location at your local retailer, maybe you could suggest they implement their own reservation system.

Customers of Ritz and Wolf Camera & Image stores across the country may have noticed a new feature when using a store photo kiosk this month – a connection to Facebook. According the Lucidiom, the company that provides kiosk software used by Ritz and Wolf Camera, the “Facebook Connect” feature has been rolled out in [...]

These days, you have plenty of choices when it comes to photo printing. You can lounge back and order them online and have them mailed home. You can stroll into your local pharmacy or big box store and drop a memory card into a kiosk and have your photos printed instantly. Or you can make [...]

Fujifilm announced last month that it was raising the price it charged for its photo paper from anywhere between five and 20%. That’s not the price Fuji charges you the consumer, but the price Fuji charges its business customers. Fujifilm supplies photo paper to a wide number of clients, including many retail outlets like Wal-Mart, for [...]

Deciding where to print your photos – at home, online, in a retail store – often boils down to a question of convenience. But cost matters too, and here it’s often quite difficult to know where you’re getting the best deal. Well, the wise minds at How To Geek have made it somewhat easier to [...]

A new Facebook app from CVS lets you make prints from Facebook albums and pick them up from a local CVS store in about an hour. The Express Photo App (which can be found here, under Print Photos) lets you choose from three print sizes: 4 x 6, 5 x 7 and 8 x 10. [...]

If you’ve ever purchased one of those collage frames and then realized you had to spend your day cutting the pictures down into a variety of odd shapes and sizes to make them fit, does Kodak have a solution for you. The company recently announced the Kodak PYNK Smart Print System –  a new design [...]