| Slintec
Photo Kiosks
Sintec Photo Kiosk, in technical collaboration with Whitech
Software Solutions ,
Australia provides customers with self service high quality
instant prints.
The launch of digital camera technology in the photographic
industry has resulted in the widespread introduction of
photo kiosks so customers can conveniently obtain their
prints. The photo kiosk gives consumers the control of
editing their images before printing or saving on CD.
Slintec Photo kiosks work equally well in a single retail
store or in a large chain store, where information is
centrally controlled and dynamically updated.
Apart from photographic stores, Slintec Photo kiosk can
be successfully placed in remote locations such as hotels,
resorts, pharmacies / drugstores, shopping centers, convenience
stores and tourist centres etc.
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Slintec photo kiosk offers the following services:
- Voice activated software
A touch screen interface guides the customers smoothly
through the entire process and meets his requirements
in a matter of a few minutes. A friendly voice gently
prompts the customer through the processing requirements.
- User friendly
The photo kiosk is extremely user friendly.
Kids, mothers and even elderly people can effortlessly
operate a photo kiosk. Be it creative print options,
image enhancement, processing passports or id photos,
burning pictures to CD etc., all these options are
clearly shown on the screen, enabling customers to
easily navigating through the menu.
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Passport and ID photos
Slintec photo kiosk has an option
where customers can create their own
Passport and Id photos by simply selecting the images
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Album creation
and Calendar function:
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Slintec photo kiosk
has an option where customers can create their own Passport
and Id photos by simply selecting the images .The album
creation function allows customers to choose from a wide
range of album templates and add their chosen photos to
them. The retailer can then produce the digital album
based on the customers’ selections. Customers are
able to create custom calendars by choosing from a wide
range of calendar templates and adding their selected
images.
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- Home delivery
This facility helps customers to order from their
homes back to their store for processing. Instead
of a customer coming back to collect their prints
from the store, they can select the home delivery
option while placing their order at the kiosk. The
prints will then be sent to their homes. Photo kiosks
give customers an estimated time when their prints
will be ready for pick-up.
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- Multi-lingual
Photo kiosks are scripted in over a dozen multiple
languages. This means the kiosk is user-friendly for
a wide range of customers.
Languages are continually added as photo kiosks find
their way into newer regions and markets.
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- Additional
features
Photo kiosks accept all memory
cards, CD’s, DVD’s and phone cameras via
infra-red or Bluetooth. They also have inbuilt scanners
and printers which can print not just passport and
small size photographs but huge posters as well. In
case the clarity of photos fed in are not good enough
for printing, the machine automatically warns the
customer of potential defects / problems.
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Photo kiosks provide an
exclusive range of editing options which suit the needs
of common people. Customers can zoom and crop their images,
add text and captions, add borders or specialty frames,
add special effects filters, such as sepia or black and
white. Customers can also create custom calendars by choosing
from a wide range of calendar templates and adding their
selected images |
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Photo kiosks automatically
correct the color, density, shadow and highlights for
each individual image or all images. They also automatically
remove unsightly Red-Eye from flash photos. |
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- High margin services
Photo kiosks offer a wide range of facilities apart
from photographs. These high margin services include
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- Scrap book templates
- Photo gifts
- Photo story books
- Photo movies
- Photo picture books
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These
have the potential to drive profits in digital printing.
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Customers can create photos
of their favorite places, people and events and
have them printed on a variety of products like
coffee mugs, T-shirts, jigsaw puzzles, bags etc.
The retailers can offer customers a range of gift
items to choose from. They can also create photo
albums and picture books by choosing their favorite
photos and events be it weddings, graduations, anniversaries
etc. Once the orders are complete they also have
the option of ordering several copies of it
in various sizes.
Similarly
photo picture books can be created by selecting
the photos, the required sizes and also a range
of backgrounds provided by the retailer. These can
be bound by the retailer himself or outsourced according
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Customers can also present
their set of favorite photos in a movie format with
different styles accompanied with music in both
DVD and VCD formats. The express movie option saves
time as it intelligently chooses the photos to be
presented. The styles of presentations can vary
depending upon the general mood be it fun, kiddy,
romantic, nostalgic etc.
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- Membership facilities
Regular customers of photo kiosks can use membership
facilities wherein their basic contact details and
id are stored. This enables them to login frequently
and make use of discount privileges allowed by the
retailers.
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Bulk Pricing Option
Stores can offer customers special package deals on multiple
prints. A limited amount of editing functions are allowed
at a flat-rate price. Event
Management
This function can be utilised at events where visitors
want to purchase prints of the event they have just
attended. For example, a cruise ship
has their guests photographed during the cruise. The
photographer uploads all the images to kiosks where
guests can view and select the photos
they want to print.
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Traditional
Film and Reprints Order Entry
Photo kiosks have the facility to accept traditional
film rolls and negatives for reprints. Depending upon
the kiosk model, customers can either scan the barcode
on the film canister or use the touch screen to select
the film type, brand and exposure. Photo kiosks will
price the job based upon these parameters as well as
number of rolls and collection time. The customer simply
adds the roll/s of film into an envelope and attaches
the printed job sheet. They can either drop it in the
drop box or hand it in at the counter. No more filling
out workbags.
Back Office
Photo kiosks come with powerful back office management
software. All reporting is carried out in this application,
which is separate from the kiosk application. Approximately
25 set reports are available on various aspects of the
business. All reports and forms can be customised and
additional reports can also be created.
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Centralised
Kiosk Control
The remote management facility makes life easy for controlling
kiosks across multiple locations by sharing information
like pricing, product/service updates, customer membership
details, new promotions, paper management for instant
printers and CD management for kiosks with CD dispensers.
Retailers can run marketing and customer loyalty programs
across all kiosks in a chain of stores and produce centralised
management reports. Digital
Control Module (DCM)
The Digital Control Module (DCM) controls the flow of
work between the Photo kiosk and a wide range of local
output devices including digital labs. It also receives
orders from Photo kiosk home ordering software. Images
can be pre-judged and corrected before printing using
the DCM. The DCM also allows you to reprint or redo
part of an order.
There are three ways the DCM can be used to activate
a job direct to an output device.
- Automatic –
Photo kiosk takes in the job, the DCM processes the
work automatically and sends it to the correct output.
- Manual –
Photo kiosk queues the jobs on the DCM and an operator
manually ticks the jobs that are ready for processing.
Mainly used by operations that don’t have Business
Professional EPOS software, as the order is only activated
once payment is received.
- Business
Professional EPOS -
Once a payment is taken in the Business Professional
Electronic Point of Sale system, or a job is set to
ready, the DCM automatically triggers the processing
of that job.
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