And in the United States, sales of photographic paper and digital printing services increased.
Digital printing services offer evergreen options, from cards to individual prints to curated albums.
Kodak, for instance, gained only a few years before digital printing services became popular.
Katz provides digital printing and prepress services for advertising and marketing companies in New York and surrounding states.
During that time, the company, which offers digital printing and prepress services for advertising agencies and major corporations, grew from 5 employees to 65.
Owned by Newport Beach native Sarah Gustavson and her husband, Phil, The UPS Store near Jamboree Road and East Coast Highway offers domestic and international shipping, full-service packaging, digital printing and online printing, black-and-white and color copies, document finishing, printing services, notary and other services.
Digital printing technology combined with a service interface allows books to be personalized, printed and delivered only when that book is sold.
Kodak, which has completed major elements of an expensive transformation into a smaller company that focuses on digital devices and printing services, also said it expected 2008 earnings to be at the lower end of its previous forecast.
The art history report, incidentally, is available on the Internet under a Creative Commons license at http://cnx.org/content/col10376/1.1, or from Rice University Press's digital print on demand service.
It is also installing digital printing capability at many of the self-service printmaking kiosks it has at retail outlets and is testing digital-only kiosks at camera stores.
