A: We can send a free sample of a card-type Millennium Photo. Please send us your full name, address and telephone number using our sample request form. However, the size of the sample is that of a business card (55 × 91 mm); therefore, unfortunately it cannot fully show the attractive characteristics of a Millennium Photo.

We do not provide product samples of larger sizes because creating them is extremely time-consuming, and they require a large amount of material costs.

If you are considering purchasing one of our products, please come to our agency to view samples of the actual products. Depending on where you live, our sales staff can visit your place with actual products, so that you can directly view them. We regularly visit different areas. Please ask us for details.

A: Please send us your full name, address and telephone number using our pamphlet request form. We mail you our printed pamphlets.

A: Millennium Photos and Stainless Photos use different engraving methods. The engraving on a Millennium Photo is the aggregation of curved lines which give a unique three-dimensional feel, and the image has a different appearance depending on the angle from which it is viewed. An image on a Stainless Photo consists of an aggregation of straight lines or dots, and does not have this effect in which it has a different appearance when viewed from different angles, and Stainless Photos also do not have a three-dimensional feel. For details please see Millennium Photos and Stainless Photos.

A: Millennium Photos are also made of stainless steel, although the difference is slightly confusing. You may have thought that Millennium Photos should be made of different materials than stainless steel because Stainless Photos are different from Millennium Photos; however, this is not the case. Please think in this way - Millennium Photos and Stainless Photos are made of the same material, and the grade of Millennium Photos is higher than that of Stainless Photos. Millennium Photos are our main product; therefore, we have used their name for the name of our company.

A: We create our products manually. For processing details, please see the creation process page.

A: Some customers are worried whether the fine lines may look like wrinkles before actually viewing the products. However, most of them say that they were simply excessively worried after viewing the actual product. The aggregations of lines do not look like wrinkles in the same way as aggregations of rough dots on photos in newspapers, and do not look like pimples or rashes. This is probably because dots expressing brightness and darkness and lines are ordered in a regular way.

However, since everyone has different perceptions, some people may feel that such lines look like wrinkles if they view the products while being worried. If you are really concerned about the possibility of lines looking like wrinkles, we recommend selecting a Stainless Photo because they use the aggregations of dots and not lines in reproducing images.

A: We would suggest that ordinary photos rather show too much detail.

Is it really necessary to show such fine detail? We think that in some cases it works better when details are omitted to an appropriate extent.

These days, cheap cameras and cameras mounted on mobile phone can shoot high-resolution images; however, we set up our company based on the belief that there are some people who are already been fed up with such ordinary photographs.

Since a long time ago, people intentionally made self-portraits obscure, using soft focused lenses which maintain distortion, making certain modifications to hide some details. It is not always the right decision to precisely reproduce rough skin and scars.

A: Millennium Photo’s are engraving based on photographs. This depends on the definition of a photograph; therefore, Millennium Photos may not be defined as photographs depending on how photographs are defined. Millennium Photos may not be photographs in that sense.