Realize that you cannot just take an existing product catalog, put it through an optical scanner, and transform it into a web page. Most magazines and "glossy" literature are printed at 1200 dpi (dots per inch), almost ALL computer monitors can display only 75-100 dpi. You may want to give your web page designer a 2 x 4 detailed photo of your product and ask them to give you a "perfect" reproduction on your page. They will be able to scan the photo in at 1200 dpi, but all those dots are going to take up a lot more room on your monitor -- the photo is now twelve times as large! Probably not what you wanted.
The normal technique is to present a "thumbnail" version of your product on the web page, still 2-4 inches in size, but with much lower resolution (has a grainy look) and smaller size, maybe only 25K bytes. If the viewer is interested in the product the thumbnail is hyperlinked to a much larger version of the photo (150K bytes) -- if they are that interested, they won't mind waiting for it to load.
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