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Press release:

Focus on Imaging preview – a few late additions

Crawley based company Unibind Systems Limited will be demonstrating the successful PhotoBook System; the products are a development of over 25 years experience in corporate presentation supplies to over 25,000 customers in the UK alone including to leading companies such as Christies, Barclays Wealth Management and Xerox.

The PhotoBook System allows professional books to be bound in minutes using the latest binding technology. The system is quick, simple and easy to use and offers a range of different formats and finishes.

All PhotoBooks are based on a traditional hard back cover and lend themselves perfectly for presentations, coffee table albums, memory books, parent books and unique ways of producing proof books.

The systems start from as little as £149.00 with the hard back covers starting from £4.95 each.

Creativity International is one of the biggest and most experienced suppliers of speciality papers in Europe. Operating out of a modern 50,000 sq ft warehouse in the Midlands, it now offers a full range of seamless professional photographic background papers, all of which will be on display at Focus.

“We understand both paper and our customers' needs for outstanding service,” says the company, “and we are committed to holding large stocks across the entire range of 50 colours, including Chroma Key compatible, as well the very largest format rolls up to 3.55m wide.”

Backgrounds are manufactured in the USA to what the company calls “the most exacting standards” and are claimed to have been the number one choice for photographers across the world for over 30 years. Every roll is individually inspected, sealed, then boxed and fully guaranteed against defects providing the same consistent performance time after time for the professional studio.

Pantone, the world-renowned authority on colour and provider of colour systems and leading technology for the selection and accurate communication of colour, will be showing their full range of colour management solutions including, Huey and Display 2 Monitor calibration solutions, ColorCue 2 and ColorVANTAGE inkjet ink systems.

Huey is the award winning entry level monitor calibration solution with unique ambient lighting feature, while Display 2 is the professional monitor calibrator solution. ColorCue 2 provides easy and quick access to the Pantone colour libraries.

First time Focus exhibitor, onOne Software are showcasing “amazing” Photoshop and Photoshop Elements plug-ins, including, for the first time in the UK, MaskPro 4.0 for masking or cutting out complex images like hair and transparent materials such as wedding veils, mist, clouds, glass and more. All onOne Software's products are designed to enable users get to grips with Photoshop faster and then “Get Back Behind the Camera”.

Working with DCP Systems, onOne will have theatre presentations on the hour every hour showing some excellent solutions, particularly Genuine Fractals, fast becoming an industry standard for scaling or up-sampling images together with HP printers, PhotoFrame 3.0 for adding amazing frame effects and Intellihance for fast changes to troublesome pictures.

onOne will be offering special show prices including low cost bundles of all the products together and DCP will be selling off the stand.

Innovators of the multiple award winning Wedding Book, Graphistudio are inviting photographers new to them, to attend seminars on their stand at Focus 2007. Entitled ‘How to get the best out of working with Graphistudio’, the 20 minute seminars will go into detail on all the relevant procedures and incorporate case studies of several of the most successful studios, highlighting how they use best practice to attain the best results and sales.

Jeremy Price, Head of the Marketing Division for Graphistudio in the UK, said: “We invented this product category, are the most reliable, the foremost developer of new ideas and products, offer the biggest choice, yet have the best price within the industry. Around 20,000 photographers globally, including some of the world’s top photographers trust Graphistudio as their book supplier”.

Ring 08707 280690, option 5, to schedule your place on a seminar. Current Graphistudio customers can schedule their one to one meetings as usual.

Perego Sergio is a company that, since its launch in 1971, has developed a strong reputation for the production of wedding, ceremonial and free-time albums.

Perego Sergio is bound to the past by tradition, but with eyes and heart looking to the future, and creates products that satisfy everybody's tastes: from timeless, classic albums in leather and albums in precious handcraft paper to more modern designs made in alcantara, fabric, silk or hand-engraved wooden cover. Every album is carefully checked to ensure both that the customer’s individual requirements have been met and that it crosses the company’s overall high quality threshold