Polaroid touts its speed as a unique advantage. The Polaroid kiosk produces 4圆 digital prints at a rate of one print per two seconds. The most recent newcomer in the industry is Polaroid, which also introduced a kiosk product at the PMAI show - the Polaroid Instant Digital Prints Kiosk. Valenta said Fuji would announce the release of a new Frontier Digital Lab System (the 340), a new Printpix DigiCam Center (the 400) and a new Fujicolor CD/DVD at the Photo Marketing Association trade show.
"For example, our Aladdin kiosk can be networked to a Pictrography scanner for print-to-print, but is also a stand-alone digital imaging kiosk." "We believe that the current marketplace is adjusting from print-to-print kiosks, which could handle single images at a time, to kiosks which are more focused on printing from digital images, in multiples," Valenta said. We continue to invest significantly in research to understand and anticipate consumer needs, thus delivering the best value proposition to consumers through the Kodak Picture Maker."įuji spokeswoman Rosemary Valenta said her company's success in the photo-finishing sector could be attributed to its products' versatility. Kodak started the imaging kiosk industry and has an intricate understanding of consumers' needs.
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"We continue to drive consumer awareness and trial of Kodak Picture Maker through national TV and print advertising as well as offering turnkey national promotions for our retail partners. "No one supports the imaging kiosk business like Kodak," she said. "This new family of Picture Maker kiosks offers a new level of consumer ease-of-use, advanced imaging features, upgradeability, configurability and connectability to meet the specific needs of Kodak retailers."ĭickerson cited Kodak's role in the growth of the technology. "We are always working to improve our kiosks such as with the new Kodak Picture Maker G3 family," Dickerson said. (see story, Picture This) Sha'Nia Dickerson, the company's consumer imaging spokeswoman, said Kodak maintains its commanding presence through, among other things, product innovations. Not surprisingly, Kodak is dominant in the industry, having developed and marketed its first photo kiosk in 1995. The relative newcomers include Lucidiom, Applied Science Fiction, Sony, Olympus, and most recently, Polaroid. And kiosks offer in-store cross-merchandising possibilities."Īs a result, Pageau said, several companies have joined established players Kodak, Fuji, Agfa and Pixel Magic in the photo-finishing kiosk niche. "Also, recent technology-like inkjet, dry film processing and thermal dye-sub printing makes photo kiosk placement possible in places where conventional processing isn't feasible. "Digital cameras are growing rapidly, and there is demand for convenient prints," said Gary Pageau, PMAI's associate publisher-editorial.
There's also a number of companies introducing new products targeting retail. Imagine them being as common as ATMs.Īccording to Photo Marketing Association International (PMAI), photo-finishing kiosks are making their way into all sorts of venues because of consumer demand for convenience and the technology that allows for self-service printing of photographs. Picture this: Photo-finishing kiosks found not only in drug stores, grocery stores and photo shops, but also convenience stores, hotels and electronics outlets.
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