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A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words

Founder Jack Counts Jr. shares the 50-year legacy of Candid Color Systems.

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Lolo Cunningham

Sep 15, 2026

Built for Volume: How PhotoMatch Took Photo Day Sales Nationwide

Today, a single picture day can reach customers across the country—and photographers don’t have to manage that reach themselves.

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Sarah Burns

Sep 15, 2026

What to Look for in a Photography Growth Partner

A true photography growth partner should do more than process orders. The right partner should help you save time, sell more, simplify your workflow, expand what you offer, and find new opportunities to grow.

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Sarah Burns

Aug 26, 2026

Why the Slow Season Is the Best Time to Grow Your Photography Business

For years, photographers have viewed their lab as simply the place that prints their photos. Today, it’s much more than that.

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Sarah Burns

Jul 20, 2026

How to Run a Flawless Media Day Without the Stress!

Ray’s photography business was always fast paced, with busy photo days and endless post-shoot work. From managing envelopes to editing and entering order numbers by hand, it felt like there…

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Lolo Cunningham

Feb 7, 2025

Amanda Campy’s Game-Changing Approach to Sports Photography

What Are PhotoMatch™ & ViewFirst™? PhotoMatch™: A powerful system that matches individual photos to the correct people and data instantly using a barcode scanner, QR code, simple data search or…

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Lolo Cunningham

Feb 6, 2025

2024 Customer of The Year

[Oklahoma City, OK] – [August 12, 2024] – Candid Color Systems (CCS) is thrilled to announce that Alex Rangel of Legends Sports Photography in Ventura, CA has been named the…

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Alison Counts

Aug 12, 2024

Preparing for The Future

We recently made a large investment in a variety of new equipment, including 2 new HP Indigo presses, that will add new capabilities in the new year. These new capabilities…

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Jack Counts, Jr.

Dec 27, 2022

Value of Attractive Graphics

Graphic Titles, Logos, and More CCS has actually put graphic titles and logos on pictures that we have produced since our inception. It has always been one of our points…

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Jack Counts, Jr.

Aug 6, 2022