It’s not hard to tell where master photographer Kelly Schulze’s heart resides … she signs off email correspondence with a “Peace, Purrs, and Tail Wags,” and she owns Mountain Dog Photography in Monkton, Vermont. Yes, she loves all things furry or scaly, and has dedicated her business to capturing their personalities in portraits. Case in point: Ivory, the albino rabbit she photographed at the Humane Society of Chittenden County, where she has volunteered her photography skills for several years. Ivory’s red eyes and bright pink skin were shot against a blue background, which Schulze says may have seemed “creepy” to some viewers. At a friend’s suggestion, she changed the image to black-and-white and suddenly had an award winner on her hands. She won the Sunset Print Award at the Vermont Professional Photographers competition for this image, titled Hare Apparent. “I’ve always been into animals, and I started photography as a kid,” she says. “After college, I figured out how to put...

You may not think that an accounting, finance and human resources professional would be inclined to turn out gorgeous photography like the winning image, WaterCourse, pictured at left. But maybe you haven’t met photographer Jamie Steeno yet.

One quick way to increase your offerings to customers … and improve your bottom line … is to invest in print finishing equipment. We turned to Michael Clementi, who heads up LexJet’s Experience Center, to give us tips on how and when to expand your business. I want to add finishing services to my business. What are some good equipment investments? Laminator: Adding a laminator to your business will open up new avenues of revenue. You’ll be able to mount prints to metal, board, plexiglass or any rigid substrate that the model of laminator will allow (half-inch to 2-inch thick substrates). You’ll also be able to over-laminate prints for protection and create rollable panels for pop-up booths for tradeshows. Like any new machinery, there is a learning curve, therefore we recommend looking into onsite training from the original equipment manufacturer of whichever brand you choose. It will be worth every minute and every penny to make sure you are comfortable with operating the...

You’ve asked for the educational tools to help you discover the opportunities that latex printing can provide. Today, we’re introducing our Latex Applications page, a one-stop online page that offers business-building ideas and explores the many creative uses and benefits of latex-printable products.

Edward and Robert Zemba, brothers and owners ofRobert Charles Photographyin East Longmeadow, Mass., know what bullying looks like. They both saw it firsthand growing up. Now, with children of their own and many high school senior clients who visit their studio, they felt compelled to partner with those students to launch the anti-bullying campaign,UNIFY, Unique iNdividuals Inspiring Future Youth.

For owners of HP latex and DesignJet printers, tracking ink and paper costs as well as job submissions is as easy as opening a web browser and entering the printer’s IP address.

Earlier this month, Epson introduced a new line of 64-inch SureColor S-Series printers. The SureColor S30675 is an ideal entry-level sign printer, delivering reliable output up to 140 square-feet per hour.

The Center on Contemporary Art’s opening reception for “Change-Seed: Contemporary Art from Hong Kong and Beyond.” Photo credit: Annie Lukin

Self-taught Indianapolis-based bag designer Anita Hopper specializes in upcycling outdated leather apparel into gorgeous, one-of-a-kind handbags, totes and clutches. A couple of years ago, she got the idea of embellishing the leather further … with her photographer son’s images.

Sometimes the most dramatic photographs can be made in the blink of an eye. When North Carolina portrait, landscape and architectural photographer Gordon Kreplin toured a local Parade of Homes event, he set up a few lights and took one shot while the hallway was clear. That one shot, named “Upstairs Downstairs,” won Kreplin the 2015 Virginia Professional Photographers Association‘s print competition. “I probably shot 15 houses that day, and this was the last one,” Kreplin says. “I loved the composition and entry into the rooms as well as the architectural lines.” To evolve the photo from a straight-forward architectural shot to something a bit more moody, he created a faux high-dynamic range (HDR) in Photoshop. He printed the image on Sunset Fibre Elite, available from LexJet, and mounted it on a 16-x-20-inch black gator board. “I don’t typically finish the print at all by putting a lacquer on it,” he says. “It can make it look milky in the light and it dulls the blacks.” A concert...