Kodak Picture Kiosks

Kodak Picture Kiosk GS Compact

Nicki Zongrone, Vice President, Consumer Digital Imaging Group, Eastman Kodak Company:

Kodak continues to provide its retail partners with innovative, yet easy to apply print options and category solutions that take advantage of the booming digital printing market

The new software upgrade announced today will improve kiosk performance and profitability, while delivering more fun and easy to use solutions for consumers who are looking to do more with their digital pictures. The new KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Compact provides retailers a compact category solution that delivers retailer profit out of the box in only minutes…
 

Kodak Picture Kiosk GS Compact

Kodak announced KODAK Picture Kiosk Software Version 1.5 that offers consumers more creative print projects while improving overall system performance. For retailers with G3 and G4 kiosks, the software upgrade creates revenue streams beyond the 4×6-inch print by providing greater functionality with the creation of picture collages. Kodak also announced the new KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Compact, a solution that provides retailers without a photo printing category an easy to use, plug and play solution that can be up and running in minutes.

KODAK Picture Kiosk Software Version 1.5

The new software contains a new Auto Collage feature that enhances the consumer experience and drives incremental sales of prints and enlargements - all delivered easily and printed in seconds for the consumer.

With new Auto Collage, the consumer begins by choosing up to 25 pictures stored on any digital storage media, including memory cards, CD/DVD or USB thumb drives. The collage is customizable with easy-to-use formatting functions, including:

• Shuffle—which automatically changes the placement and size of the pictures selected. Consumers can shuffle multiple times until the desired effect is achieved.
• Resize—selected pictures can be made bigger or smaller relative to others on the page.
• Background Color and Style—consumers can choose from a set of color backgrounds to complement the pictures, or select one of their pictures as a translucent background for a truly unique effect.
• Text—using the touch screen keypad, a special message or title can be added to the page.

The new software will be available as a free upgrade to participating retailers in June.

KODAK GS Compact Picture Maker

Retailers looking for an entry-level solution to self-service picture printing will find the new KODAK GS Compact Picture Maker is perfect for low traffic situations. Its compact countertop design is extremely space efficient and well-suited for smaller shops with demand for 30-70 prints per day. Installation is a snap, and retailers can immediately offer 4×6, 5×7 and 6×8-inch print sizes, all from the same media pack without ribbon or paper changes. Best of all, the GS Compact produces the same Kodak lab-quality prints as full-sized kiosks. The new kiosk will be available worldwide beginning in September, and will be priced around $2,500.00 U.S.

March 2007

Kodak Picture Kiosk GS Digital Station

Kodak introduced the KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Digital Station for  medium volume retail digital photo printing.

Kodak Picture Kiosk G4

Philip Cullimore, Kodak’s Consumer Printing Systems Divisional Manager:

While retailers are guaranteed exceptional quality, reliability and profitability from the KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Digital Station, the consumer is also guaranteed the highest quality Kodak prints. Establishing a brand new category in the market, the KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Digital Station opens a new offering for digital photo printing solutions…

Including the full range of unique Kodak technologies, the self-service KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Digital Station allows users to quickly and intuitively locate and print quality prints. With a 17” touch screen monitor and the ability to print out from the full range of input methods, including memory card, USB input and Bluetooth connectivity, the GS Digital station prints in an astonishing 11 seconds and provides 750 4×6 prints per roll.

The KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Digital Station comes with the new V1.2 software that offers consumers an even better, more intuitive interface helping reduce the ‘at kiosk time’ by up to 40% per user. The software makes it easier for images to be located, even across large sets of images, plus provides a shopping cart workflow similar to online purchases, making it easy for the consumer to purchase as many products as they would like. The V1.2 software also provides a diverse range of printed products giving the user plenty of scope for creativity and flexibility – it enables instant double prints, offers creative features such as greeting cards and calendars, and has a Picture CD feature that can instantly reproduce an entire set of image, video and audio files.

Providing the consumer with assured Kodak quality, the KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Digital Station uses KODAK Perfect Touch technology, which automatically adjusts the digital image to produce the best quality print – reducing red eye, reproducing fewer shadows and providing richer detail and more vibrant colours. Kodak Xtralife paper also gives the consumer a quality assurance of waterproof, wipe-able and stain resistant pictures helping their treasured images longer lasting.

Accepting the Kodak Kiosk card, the KODAK Picture Kiosk GS Digital Station
enables the consumer to have true self-service printing combined with the
option to pre-pay for printing. This consumer flexibility is combined with full
flexibility for the retailer as the kiosk provides enhanced connectivity
options, in to the Kodak Picture Kiosk family. The KODAK Picture Kiosk GS
Station allows upgrades with additional external printers and scanners, which
can be networked with other kiosks, mini-labs and wholesale labs.  It also
allows connectivity with Remote Business Manager, plus accepts the Ingenico
i5100 payment terminal.

DVD Writer/Dispenser

The next generation of DVD and CD writers/dispensers are now available for
use with Kodak kiosks.  Providing an effective solution for self-service
consumer CD authoring, this new version requires minimal interaction from store
personnel for increased efficiency.  For the first time, this model has
the ability to author DVDs, preparing retailers for the future as DVD
technology becomes more relevant to imaging.  Also, with a significantly
lower hardware cost than previous models, retailers can enjoy a quicker return
of investment without compromising performance.

Sept 2006

Kodak Picture Kiosk

The Kodak Picture Kiosk and Kodak Picture Maker G3 will help retailers explore the potential of the digital printing market. New kiosk features will enable connectivity for remote service, and will also deliver high quality pictures through Kodak Perfect Touch Technology.

Patrick King,  vice president, Eastman Kodak Company:

More and more consumers are using digital cameras, and in turn, we are seeing an incredible surge in the demand to print digital pictures…

By extending our kiosk line with the Kodak Picture Kiosk, and creating innovative features and tools for our current G3 kiosk family, we’re generating new opportunities for retailers to leverage digital printing technology for increased sales

Lower Price Points Offer Easier Entry into Digital Printing: Kodak has expanded its Kodak Picture Maker G3 family of kiosks to include a new digital system that will give retailers an opportunity to enter the digital printing market at a lower cost, providing customers with a broader selection of locations at which to print their digital pictures.

Kodak Picture Kiosk

The self-service Kodak Picture Kiosk features a pedestal monitor connected to a Kodak Picture Maker G3 Print Station with Photo Printer 6800, which allows people to preview, edit, select and print their digital images in just a few minutes. This new digital system offers a much smaller footprint on the retailer’s counter along with easy set-up and lower investment, while maintaining the most popular image editing features and print sizes. People will be able to order prints from just about any digital camera memory card, including SecureDigital (SD) cards, MultiMedia Cards (MMC), CompactFlash, Smartmedia, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro and xD-Picture cards. Similar to the Kodak Picture Maker G3 family of kiosks, the consumer-friendly touch screen lets people zoom, crop, reduce red eye and print the sizes and quantities of the exact pictures they want up to 6 x 8 inches.

New Kiosk Software Delivers Improved Image Processing and Enhanced Marketing Support: Kodak is launching version 5.0 software for its family of Picture Maker G3 kiosks. Prominent within the v5.0 software is Kodak’s proprietary image science technology, which delivers Kodak Perfect Touch Technology. Photos printed from Kodak Picture Makers with Kodak Perfect Touch Technology reveals more vibrant colors, richer detail, and fewer dark shadows. This improvement comes on the heels of a 2004 Good Housekeeping Institute report stating that print quality from the Kodak Picture Maker digital print kiosks was superior to that of its chief competitor.

The new software version also includes new capabilities that will help to drive incremental sales of Picture Maker services. Based on the consumer’s editing and ordering choices, the KODAK Picture Maker intelligently presents information for additional photo services available and allows them to add an additional service to their order with just one touch. Retailers benefit from this new feature as it promotes consumer awareness and trial of new photo services, as well as helping drive incremental profitability through premium services.

New Kiosk Enhancements Drive Additional Offerings and Revenue Opportunities: Kodak recently announced their selection of TouchPoint Solutions, Inc.’s Catapult platform as a primary component of its retail digital photo-printing infrastructure. The agreement will allow for the installation of TouchPoint’s remote management software, Catapult, on thousands of new and existing Kodak Picture Maker kiosks worldwide.

Kodak will use this new, networked infrastructure to further drive efficiency and profitability for retailers who own and operate Kodak equipment. By using a centralized remote management system, Kodak can provide flexible business management services allowing deployment of a variety of marketing, sales, and advertising programs via the Kodak Picture Maker kiosk. In addition, it delivers centralized daily collection of production data with ready access to reports all within a secure, proven environment. And, retailers benefit from proactive service and support that monitors and controls in-store equipment, even performing diagnostics and repair. Devices will automatically communicate with Kodak technicians and store personnel when attention is needed, thus minimizing equipment downtime. This new capability provides retailers with valuable business and service information to optimize performance and profitability.

Enhanced Photo Printers Provide Increased Print Speed and Print Size Flexibility: Kodak has also announced enhancements to its photo printers for the Kodak K Picture Maker family of kiosks. The new KODAK Photo Printer 6850 will replace the 6800 model beginning in the third quarter of 2005. The main benefit of the 6850 is faster printing speeds – eight seconds for a 4 x 6-inch print. The 6850 will maintain the award winning print quality of the 6800, which won the Digital Imaging Marketing Association (DIMA) printer shootout and Technical Imaging Press Association (TIPA) awards in 2004. The 6850 model will also continue to offer the same high print capacity (750 prints per roll) and print size flexibility (up to 6 x 8-inch borderless prints) benefits as the current 6800 model.

March 2005

Source: Kodak Picture Kiosk