Release Date: 28 April 2008

Record kiosk sales from Fujifilm, plus free software upgrade offer

Fujifilm has reported 'record sales' of its acclaimed Digital Photo Centre kiosk over the past twelve months.

The kiosks were designed specifically with the end user in mind. They're quick and easy to use and produce consistently excellent results. The units can accept all types of digital media including media cards, DVD, CD, Bluetooth and Infrared.

Each kiosk is loaded with Fujifilm's own SmartPix software that ensures smooth operation for customers and a greatly reduced workload for shop staff.

Some of the many features of the Smartpix software are:

- Simple touch-screen controls make sizing, cropping, rotating and creating easy - even for first-time users
- Customers can create huge posters or montages - with up to 26 shots on one sheet
- A wide range of finishes and templates makes it simple to create stylish A5/A4 albums of family photos and holiday snapshots
- Additional services such as borders, extra sets, even printing on a different paper surface can be chargeable
- Promotional codes can be set up for short run promotions or as a loyalty reward for your best customers

The software automatically analyses and optimises each image before printing, this gives customers superior quality photos and builds up their confidence in their own photographic ability each time they use the system.

And there is even a Kiosk On-Line version so a photo retailer can offer the same high standard of service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Paul Austin from Fujifilm made this statement: "Our Digital Photo Centre kiosks have always been well received by retailers. The introduction of the Smartpix software now means they offer a true self-service solution that frees up valuable staff resources. We can see the multi kiosk store becoming a reality as more and more photo retailers are investing in additional kiosks because of the ever increasing demand from the public for prints from their digital images."

One of the stand-out features of the Smartpix software is the ability to keep the software bang up to date via a broadband connection to a central server. An additional benefit of this is that the photo retailer gets access to their own web based 'back office' to enable them to change the content and price configuration settings and also access the all important sales data. So whether they have a single site with one or more kiosks or a whole network of kiosks spread over many sites, managing them all is done from just one web site.

Whether connected to a Fujifilm Frontier digital minilab in store or remotely, used as a standalone unit connected to an ASK instant printer or even accessed on-line the Digital Photo Centre and Smartpix software offers the flexibility to suit every business need.

Free software upgrades

Fujifilm are encouraging all Digital Photo Centre owners to upgrade to the new Smartpix software. All retailers who operate a Fujifilm Frontier digital minilab are entitled to a free SmartPix software upgrade. This offer has been extended until July 1st 2008.
For further information on the software offer, or for details of any of Fujifilm's photofinishing solutions, please contact the Photofinishing sales team on minilabs@fuji.co.uk or 01234 572144.

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About Fujifilm
Fujifilm is a global leader in imaging technology, products and services including digital cameras, photofinishing, digital storage and recording media, consumer and professional film, motion picture film, professional video, printing systems, medical imaging, office technology, flat panel displays and graphic arts. The company employs more than 73,000 people worldwide, with 178 subsidiaries stretching across four continents.

Uniquely placed to be a market leader in digital imaging, Fujifilm develops and manufactures its own sensors, lenses and processing technology. In addition to its production plants and R&D operations in Japan, the company has key manufacturing facilities in Europe and the USA for core products such as colour film, colour paper, single use cameras and CTP printing plates, and has further factories in Brazil and China. It has a global turnover in excess of £13 billion.

In the UK, Fujifilm has been supplying the imaging, printing and graphics industries, as well as consumers, professional and enthusiast photographers, with high quality, innovative products and services for over 25 years. Fujifilm UK currently employs more than 450 people and has become one of the country's most popular photographic and imaging brands.

© 2008, Fujifilm UK Ltd. Specifications are subject to change.

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