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Two Nifty New Retail Print Apps
January 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Brooke International has been bringing innovative print applications to the imaging industry for years now – look now further than their Hope Jigsaw Puzzle machines.

Noritsu/LifePics Team
April 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Noritsu America Corporation recently announced a collaboration with online photo service provider LifePics, to provide an innovative retail photo printing solution focused on the new Noritsu D701 compact retail inkjet printer. The Noritsu D701 is a high quality inkjet printer capable of producing a wide variety of print sizes to maximize revenue potential for the retailer. Retailers can now provide their customers with a full assortment of photo and photo-related products in stores. In addition to standard 4”x6” prints, the D701 can produce new photo revenue opportunities through items such as calendars, photo cards, locker prints and posters up to 10” x 36”. The

Mitsubishi Teams With DigitalPost Interactive
April 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America’s Imaging Products Division has reached an agreement with DigitalPost Interactive to offer Web photo album services with their DPS photo system products. DigitalPost Interactive offers user-friendly Web platforms for digital media sharing and social networking, including “TheFamilyPost.com” family Web sites. Under the agreement, which will be rolled out in two phases, Mitsubishi will offer TheFamilyPost.com Web sites intended to provide retailers with continued online brand exposure for the lifetime of the family site. The retailer’s customers who visit the Web site to build photo albums and keep in touch with family members will see advertising for the retailer’s printing services.

New Web Platform for Photo Retailers
March 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Tripod Ventures, a provider of unique technology solutions for the retail sector, recently announced that it has engaged Future Image Inc. to consult on the development of its next generation web platform, currently code-named “Fusion.” While details on Fusion are still unfolding, Tripod tells us this new Web platform is, “primed to become the new standard for photo retailers. Based on third-generation technology, “Fusion” is an integrated Web platform that delivers a unified user interface for both photo processing and photo merchandising orders. The platform leverages the latest web technology to streamline the ordering process, and creates a stellar user experience that is intuitive

Lucidiom’s Latest
February 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Lucidiom now offers a four DVD disc set of its latest APM (Automated Photo Machine) software 5.2 and its exclusive content templates for Luci, Photo Folio and DVD Cinema – a part of its Lucidiom EQ solution to increase photo retailers’ profit potential. Within the new disc set are folded cards, animated specialty DVDs, flip books among other photo products. The EQ’s 5x7 folded card system within Photo Folio has been completely redesigned to improve the customer experience. Separated into 11 categories: Anytime, Baby, Birthday, Christmas, Halloween, Hanukkah, New Year’s, Season’s Greetings, Thank You, Thanksgiving and Wedding & Engagement, Photo Folio now offers

Mitsubishi Debuts Latest Print Engines
February 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
At the 2008 PMA Show in Las Vegas, Mitsubishi presented its new CP-3800DW high speed 8 x 10 digital color printer, the CP-9800DW high speed 5 x 7 printer, and the DPS Kiosk 7000. In addition, Mitsubishi gave the PMA attendees their first look at the new Mini-DPS System, a soon to be released portable digital photo management and printing station. Click here for the short video news release featuring clips and interviews from the Mitsubishi booth at the show.  

Kodak’s New APEX System
February 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Kodak has announced a new minilab/digital print unit dubbed APEX, featuring an open, configurable system, that they feel meets the evolving needs of retailers, “through flexibility and efficiency in providing digital products and services to consumers.” Retailers can not only connect current Kodak order stations (up to 13 stations) to APEX to fulfill consumers’ standard print order, but can also tap the systems’ ability to accept and produce premium product orders. These products include the Kodak Picture Movie DVD, as well as posters and single-sided or duplex photo books, calendars, collages and greeting cards. Specific features of the APEX system include: Thermal

Instant Photo Storefront
February 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Visan recently announced the launch of their RocketLife Technology Platform that creates an “Instant Storefront” that lets everyone, including individuals, businesses, educational and other institutions, launch a revenue-generating photo products and gifts website in less than 15 minutes. RocketLife’s “Instant Storefront” lets you instantly create your own branded website for a nominal fee. RocketLife handles all aspects of the sale, from creation and production, to sales fulfillment for all types of personal photo products. Once the user has created the storefront website with RocketLife, customers will be able to take advantage of the RocketLife state-of-the-art “3D Digital Merchandising” photo product creation

Blurb Photo Books
February 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Blurb describes themselves as a creative publishing service and innovator in social print media, and the company recently introduced a service they are calling Community Books. This hybrid client/web service was designed to enable groups of people to make books together. Blurb explains that as social communities continue to explode online, people are sharing digital content with each other; what’s difficult is to efficiently translate that online sharing into physical, tangible goods. By empowering both online and offline communities to come together and create Community Books, Blurb has opened up a new way for socially connected groups of consumers and professionals to stay connected

Albumprinter Opp
January 2008 From Retail Apps / Opps
Founded in 2003, Albumprinter, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and with offices in New Jersey, USA, offers a fully integrated end-to-end solution that enables consumers to create hard cover photo books and other photo products using their own digital images. The company’s user-friendly software and specially developed binding technique has won several industry awards. Albumprinter licenses its innovative photo book solution to photo retailers, Internet companies and other photo channels in Europe and the U.S. enabling them, as they explain, “to offer new photo products to their customers and to create new revenue streams.” The company explains that their expertise is built around

Retail Apps and Opps
September 2007 From Retail Apps / Opps
Consumer Storage Help from Avanquest With the storage of consumer digital image files becoming a hot button topic within the imaging industry, a new solution from a company called Avanquest is gaining some steam lately. The company recently announced the release of SendPhotos 5, a new digital photo sharing and storage solution for the consumer market. The SendPhotos 5 software, as the company explains, “is an easy-to-use software-service combination that provides seasoned digital photographers and novices alike with innovative options for sharing photos through e-mail or online while at the same time affording them peace of mind about the privacy and preservation of their