ECHIROLLES, France, 17 September 2010 – Leveraging its operating experience with more than 2,000 original Photobook Makers worldwide, KIS Photo-Me is introducing the Photobook Builder, an exciting profit-generating system designed to turn silver halide minilabs into powerful onsite production systems for top quality photobooks and folded greeting cards. Prints from the minilab are simply stacked in the feeder and the Photobook Builder does the rest automatically. A ten-page 5.7x8”(14.5x20cm) photobook (books as big as 30 pages can be made) is finished in just over two minutes, and up to 20 photo greeting cards are folded and glued in about 20 minutes. The revolutionary cold bonding process perfected for dye sub media has been thoroughly tested with real photographic paper prints to make photobooks unaffected by high humidity, large temperature swings or pollutants in the air.
“Retailers using our Photobook Maker have been so impressed by the quality and durability of the output, as well as its drawing power for attracting new customers, that they asked us to develop the Photobook Builder to complement their traditional ‘wet’ minilabs,” commented Ivan Semenoff, President of KIS Photo-Me. “Our global vision is to deliver automated, reliable, economical production tools to photo retailers that will enable them to become dynamic producers of a wide range of creative, high-margin photo products that delight consumers and generate new revenues.”
New features for the Photobook Maker include a downloadable software suite so that consumers can create and modify their photobooks at home, and then print them through the Photobook Maker; a child book add-on which allows consumers to create a customized book with a child’s face on every page, making their child the star of the story; and expanded payment options (coin and bill acceptor, change giver and credit card). Up to 100 photos can be put into 30 pages of a photobook
The new compact Pocketbook Kiosk G2 is a versatile automatic self-service kiosk-printer-binder system that produces 4x6-inch (10x15cm) pocketbooks or creative print products (prints, frames, greeting cards, calendars and more) in minutes. Photobooks can contain up to 70 photos and be as large as 30 pages. Using the touchscreen, and the same easy-to-use design software that continues to thrill thousands of people everyday who use the Photobook Maker, consumers can make an attractive laminated photo album, complete with the album title printed on the spine, in under five minutes. The anti-vandalism enclosure design complies with the European disability access requirement, and requires only 6 square feet (0.55 sqm) of floor space.
For remote unattended locations, the new self-service SpeedLab 300/300+ accepts all popular digital storage media and provides a wide range of print sizes (4x6-inches/10x15cm available in color, B&W or sepia, 5x7-inches/13x18cm color and 6x8-inches/15x20cm color), a full range of creative products, and can burn CD/DVDs. Up to 400 4x6-inches/10x15cm prints/hr. can be made. The 300+ model incorporates a separate large format printer to deliver additional sizes: 8x10-inch/20x25cm, 8x12-inches/20x20cm and 4x8-inches/10x20cm. The consumables kit will print 600 4x6 inches/10x15cm prints between changes. Remote diagnostics via GPRS allows cost-effective monitoring and control of a group of kiosks from a central location.