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Schools photos printed on dye subs

South Cheshire Studios is a small schools photography business in the UK, owned and managed by Jenny Barnard. When faced with the challenge of pricing nursery packages affordably for lower-income parents, while at the same time still making a profit on them, Jenny decided to bring printing in-house. She cooked up an innovative solution based on affordable Fujifilm ASK professional thermal photo printers.

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Schools Photography chooses Fujifilm Solutions

Schools photography is part of our national culture. We all grow up with it as children, and as parents we later consume it. For the practitioners who provide it, the task divides into two major activities, capture and print. Photographers do the image capture, prints are made by a lab. Both activities may be combined in a single integrated business, although many schools photographers use the services of a specialised lab. Whatever the business model, though, all types of schools service choose Fujiflm solutions. (Advertorial)

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