[ic] Large IC site and precise photo representation

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dan Browning)]

At 09:44 AM 10/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>This is more directed to the larger IC sites, but basically, do you 
>receive a lot of grief for not having a precise photographic 
>representation for each of your products?  Asked differently, if you have 
>tens of thousands of products, do you actually have a unique and specific 
>photo for each of those and if not, how have you managed to avoid the 
>flack of folks complaining about it not being 'precisely' the same?
>
>We sell electronic components and out of the dozen of extremely positive 
>customer comments we have received, we had one person whine about the fact 
>that the connectors on the picture didn't actually match the product 
>specification.  Obviously the owner is reacting to the one single comment 
>rather than the volume of positive ones, but realistically we cannot 
>possibly photograph, photo-edit, and place images for 22,000 parts.

I certainly wouldn't want to *manually* do that.  However, some 
manufacturers have nicely done product images they will share (with your 
luck, probably none of your OEMs ;-) ).  With a little ImageMagick command, 
you can convert them all from whatever undoubtedly exotic format the OEM 
uses into the nice little thumbs/ and items/ graphics.  You might see if 
you can get ahold of the marketing dept. of any of your larger OEMs.

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