Sony Photo Kiosk Article

In The News: The competitive battle to grab retail locations for photo kiosks is being ratcheted up by Sony with moves on both the technology and marketing fronts. Excerpt and pdf courtesy Photo Trade News magazine The race to deliver dye-sub prints to consumers in ever faster times has been a challenge to the kiosk industry. Slow print output tends to tie up a kiosk, preventing access by the next customer in line as well as frustrating the consumer waiting for his/her prints. Sort of like waiting for a pot of water to boil.

Sony has developed a new, higher-speed printer that is being incorporated into the Sony PictureStation. According to Dave Johnson, senior marketing manager, the new printer will reduce first print output from 23 seconds to about eight seconds for the first 4R and each print thereafter. He claims it is the industry’s fastest delivery off a single printer. A 5x7 from this printer takes 15 seconds, a 6x8, 20 seconds.

Others have dealt with the speed problem by incorporating two printers working in tandem. Johnson said that ganging two of Sony’s new printers, which can be done, would cut delivery to four seconds a print. By comparison, Kodak’s G-3 kiosks, with two model 6800 printers in tandem, output the first print in 11 seconds and each subsequent one in five seconds.

Pixel Magic outputs first print in 18 seconds and following prints in 10.5 seconds off one printer and half that time when two printers are ganged. At photokina, Pixel showed a four-printer setup with correspondingly faster output times.

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Health and Nutrition Kiosk

KIOSK InformationSystems and Healthnotes Inc. Launch Consumer Health Kiosk for Retail Applications

KIOSK InformationSystems and Healthnotes Inc. Launch Consumer Health Kiosk for Retail Applications

LOUISVILLE, Colo., -- KIOSK InformationSystems (KIOSK) and Healthnotes Inc., a nationally-recognized leader in providing consumer information on health and lifestyle issues, have developed and launched an interactive kiosk system designed for supermarket, pharmacy and natural product store customers. Healthnotes branded the new kiosk the EasyAnswers Touchscreen and will sell it to retailers bundled with its kiosk software products, Healthnotes Healthy Living and Healthnotes Pharmacy.

Pennsylvania-based Clemens Family Markets is the first store to make the EasyAnswers Touchscreen available for its shoppers, incorporating the new kiosk in 20 of its 21 suburban Philadelphia locations.

Healthnotes Healthy Living and Healthnotes Pharmacy provide consumers with easy-to-understand, science-based information on health concerns, supplements, foods, nutrition, special diets, and weight control, as well as hundreds of recipes. Healthnotes Pharmacy also features over 2,000 patient education monographs (PEMs) on OTC and prescription medications. The articles, PEMs, and recipes can be printed directly from the kiosk.

"A growing consumer acceptance and use of kiosks is helping drive the introduction of these products in all facets of our lives," said Schuyler Lininger, HNI president and CEO. "Healthnotes is proud to team with KIOSK InformationSystems to offer retailers a sophisticated yet user-friendly kiosk system that they can use in-store to educate shoppers on healthy living information at the point of decision."

For additional information about KIOSK, Healthnotes, and the new kiosk services, visit www.kis-kiosk.com or www.healthnotes.com.

About Healthnotes Inc.
Healthnotes Inc. (HNI) is the premier provider of credible, easy-to-use health and lifestyle information for Web site and in-store touchscreen kiosk initiatives. More than 6,500 supermarkets, pharmacies, and natural product stores in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom use Healthnotes Retail Solutions to improve customer service, build loyalty, and increase sales. HNI also generates behind-the-counter applications that are licensed to e-commerce and health-related Internet sites worldwide.

About KIOSK
KIOSK InformationSystems designs and manufactures touch screen, self-service kiosk solutions for retail, human resources, employee benefits, CRM, Wi-Fi, loyalty, gaming and many more self-service applications. With more than 28 standard kiosk models, custom models, turnkey vending units such as public internet terminals and photo kiosks, KIOSK has the largest self-service product and services line from which to choose.

Founded in 1993, KIOSK InformationSystems has more than 100 years of combined experience and is ISO 9001 and UL-listed certified. Retail kiosks, human resource and self-service solutions are a core competency. Major clients include Wal-Mart, U.S. Postal Service, McDonalds, Pepsi, the U.S. Government and Disney. For information about KIOSK products and services please visit www.kis-kiosk.com, call KIOSK at 303-466-5471 or email pr@gokis.net.

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Photo Kiosk Shootout

KIOSK InformationSystems Enters Digital Photo Kiosk Shoot-Out LOUISVILLE, Colo., Jan 30, 2004 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- KIOSK InformationSystems, Inc. (KIOSK) has entered its QuickPIX Photo Machine in the First Annual Digital Photo Kiosk Shoot-Out sponsored by the Digital Imaging Marketing Association (DIMA) at its 2004 Conference February 10 in Las Vegas.

QuickPIX, manufactured by KIOSK in partnership with TouchPoint Solutions, Inc., is a complete, self-contained photo finishing station with a small footprint designed for placement in a wide range of retail locations including convenience stores, supermarkets and drugstores. Each unit incorporates full point-of-sale functionality including photo printing, cash and credit card processing and the issuing of receipts. In addition, QuickPIX units can be tailored to the branding needs of individual retailers.

At the DIMA Shoot-Out QuickPIX will compete against other stand-alone output photo finishing kiosks. A panel of judges will evaluate each system on a variety of attributes including speed of first print, user friendliness, quality of print and simplicity of use. QuickPIX by KIOSK offers the user high speed, high volume and high quality photo printing. Surface wave technology and pure glass touch screens in QuickPIX assures superior resolution and fewer false screen touches.

"Retail leaders and consumers have quickly embraced the photo kiosk as a natural outgrowth of the digital camera revolution," said Rick Malone, president and CEO of KIOSK. "The uniqueness of QuickPIX makes the experience of editing, printing and paying for your own digital photos quick, fun and easy."

QuickPIX and other KIOSK kiosks will be on display in Booth B203 at the Photo Marketing Association International Annual Convention and Trade Show February 12-15, 2004.

KIOSK InformationSystems designs and manufactures touch screen, self-service kiosk solutions for retail, human resources, employee benefits, CRM, Wi-Fi, loyalty, gaming and many more self-service applications. With more than 28 standard kiosk models, custom models, turnkey vending units such as public internet terminals and photo kiosks, KIOSK has the largest self-service product and services line from which to choose.

Founded in 1993, KIOSK InformationSystems has more than 100 years of combined experience and is ISO 9001 and UL-listed certified. Retail kiosks, human resource and self-service solutions are a core competency. Major clients include Wal-Mart, U.S. Postal Service, McDonald's, Pepsi, the U.S. Government and Disney. For information about KIOSK products and services please visit www.kis-kiosk.com/pr-photokiosk, call KIOSK at 303-466-5471 or email pr@gokis.net.

For further information, please contact Tom Weaver of KIOSK, +1-303-661-1652.

SOURCE KIOSK InformationSystems, Inc.

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