Issued by SwiftPix:
SwiftPix Digital Photo Kiosks
With the market for digital imaging showing exponential growth, a new company called SwiftPix has developed a stand-alone Digital Photo Kiosk to help retailers capitalise on this growing market.
Worldwide Digital camera sales are predicted to reach almost 53 million in 2004 alone*. It is to service this burgeoning market of digital camera owners that SwiftPix has created its Digital Photo Kiosks. The kiosks provide customers with a way to print, save to CD, and edit their digital images as well as sharing and viewing their images over the Internet and by email – all using a simple touch screen interface.
SwiftPix is a New Zealand based company that is currently in the early stages of growing internationally with the sale and installation of its first two Digital Photo Kiosks in Australia earlier this year. SwiftPix has invested almost two years into the development and testing of their technology and has now proven the technology in the market with the successful installation of the two kiosks in Backpacker Hostels in Brisbane.
Brisbane kiosk owner Rory Tighe is pleased with the operation of the Digital Photo Kiosks commenting he is “receiving fantastic customer feedback due to the convenience and control the kiosks offer them, particularly the ability to save their pictures to a CD vended from the kiosk – something I could not find in many other kiosks”.
SwiftPix’s focus when developing the technology has been to make it as simple and convenient as possible for both the customer and the kiosk owner. As such, the kiosks use a wizard like interface that steps the customer through the process, allowing them to perform any function in just four simple steps.
Not only are they simple to use, they are simple to manage. Kiosk owners need only restock CDs in the built in CD vendor and replace the paper in the Sony photo printer. In addition, SwiftPix Digital Photo Kiosks are some of the very few on the market that are fully networked and always online – each kiosk is connected to SwiftPix’s central webserver.
This means kiosk owners have complete control of each and every one of their kiosks, making it easy to manage multiple sites. It also allows SwiftPix to service and support all its customers’ kiosks remotely as well as provide updates and technical developments as they become available.
This innovative company has only recently started, but with a presence in the USA, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, it has big plans for growth believing its kiosks offer owners and customers real value due to their simple interface, range of functions, convenience to manage and fully networked support.
www.swiftpix.co.nz
*Source: InfoTrends research group, August 2004
