Start a Photobook Business

Photo books are creative, imaginative and, above all, evocative. They recreate images from a wonderful event, or an important stage in someone's life or capture memories to ensure they don't fade. People like them because they are snapshots of their lives that aren't lost in some dusty attic or shoved away in some dog-eared album. They are books to be kept, enjoyed and shared.

For a printer or photo-lab they are a serious business opportunity, too. Customers are keen to make up albums of their holiday snaps, family get-togethers or meeting up with old friends. Families love to keep a record of a wedding. Schools and universities are adopting the idea of Year Books. All three can be put together in high quality, themed albums that combine impressive digital techniques and top-quality stock to showcase the customers' own images.

3 Markets, 1 Product

  • Consumer - events, sports clubs, leisure and tourism, directly to consumer via search engine optimisation and advertising
  • Professional - high quality photo book products for model agencies, wedding and commercial photographers including self-promotion and fine art
  • Education - yearbooks, planners, diaries, end of term books, club scrapbooks and calendars

Photobook Software Key Points

  • Continually-developing photo book platform with full Mac and PC support
  • Unlimited branding - business-to-business and business-to-consumer models
  • 18 languages to date and 20+ multiple-country payment gateways
  • Feature rich but easy to use
  • Powerful, fast, robust, customisable client software
  • End-to-end platform; from design, shopping basket, e-commerce through to production
  • Unique license key so only the master can work with the print ready files
  • Add or publish your product offering and new templates without paying the supplier
  • Built in flight check, training assistant and wizard
  • No conflict of interest - we do not print photo books
  • Local support infrastructure with amazing customer feedback

Licensing

TAOPIX™ is available in two business models

TAOPIX™ Professional - Which is ideally suited to print and photo lab companies

TAOPIX™ Multisite - Multisite is a new TAOPIX™ Photobook module which is ideally suited to large print and photobook companies as well as franchises that require efficient, multiple site photo book production.