Scrapbooking: HP Photosmart Express Kiosk

HP Photosmart Express Kiosk

by Steve, Friday, February 24, 2006

Yesterday, Hewlett Packard unveiled its new HP Photosmart Express Kiosk, a self-service photo-processing, printing, poster, calendar, and greeting card maker.

These interactive kiosks will be found in drug stores, grocery stores, camera stores, and whereever shoppers might feel convenient to get photos made.

Longs Drugs Stores, Albertsons, and Bashas' Supermarkets have already announced plans to roll these in. In fact, four Longs Drugs Stores in California already have them in place:

129 North El Camino Real Encinitas, CA 92024 (760)-942-2134
5644 Mission Center Rd Suite 201 San Diego, CA 92108 (619)-298-3533
1500 First St Livermore, CA 94550 (925)-455-5400
738 Bancroft Rd Walnut Creek, CA 94598 (925)-938-7616

The HP Photosmart Studio is the only in-store solution that allows customers a fun way to design creative products using 200+ images in less than an hour at affordable prices.

Here's how it works...

Insert any combination of photo CDs, memory cards or memory sticks into the kiosk, and your images are instantly loaded into the system to view.

Select a project to create. Choose from small, medium or large albums, posters, calendars, greeting cards or photo CDs.

Print. A Longs Drugs photo department employee will present you with your creation in minutes!

The HP Photosmart Express can accept photos on just about any kind of media, including Compact Flash (type 1 and 2), Secure Digital, Memory Stick, xD, MMC, mini-SD, RS-MMC, MS Duo, CD, DVD, USB Flash thumb-drive, SmartMedia, Bluetooth 2.0, Wired and wireless networking.

4 Comments:

HP photo kiosk

This is a potential repeat of their failed Kodak/HP venture this time by HP- the past project "Phogenix" using same ink technology,it was too slow at 250 prints per hr,plus hype about sales of up to $1bn annually,Phogenix failed because it was poorly received by the market and print cost was over the moon,talk about trying to rewrite history,there famous brand doesn't relate to the digital kiosk retail space,plus digital camera owners are brand loyal,the Canon guy is not going to insert his media into HP,or either is the Kodak owner,same with Nikon,so they have less than 5% of the digital camera market.
With a HP/Kodak kiosk venture, they spent millions of dollars, built a new plant-went to market with poor response to these kiosks then shut it down before they where delivered to handful of customers, saying they where in the “wrong space”-and home printing was where they should be--expect this is panic move to shore up sliding home printing.
Ink jet in the public space just is not good enough quality at a retail level--it has lots of problems with getting the right mix of colours on prints-and with paper having to absorbed the ink at high speed-there will be issues and un happy customers, let alone archival quality of about 20-30yrs these prints begin to fade within 2yrs, our 100yrs archival values at pxidigital®, we offer customers “instant gratification”® expect our customer turn around time will be 2-3 times faster than the HP kiosk, with superior quality digital prints, just spent 14mths retail testing with fantastic customer responses most say we are way in front of the Kodak on demand kiosk quality,we launch is 2 weeks with 2.9 sces per print,having a deal in place before launch for some 35,000 of our kiosks in China over next 5yrs
We went down the path of inkjet 3.5yrs ago when we first started our R&D with Epson as engine supplier,they have in my view equal IP to HP, after retail testing we dropped this inkjet technology,there where too many customer issues with print quality-plus archival issues with inkjet.
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By laserbeam, at 7:23 PM
laserbeam posts negative comments about HP ALL OVER the place! I've asked him to send me information about his system to no avail.
Anyway- back to the subject at hand. HP also announced the same day their Photosmart Studio- which we have. It lets you create quick projects when time is of the essence. Collage posters, photobooks, cards and photo CDs can be done in minutes- and the finished product ready in an hour or less. Our location is in Corvallis, Oregon- Rush Hour Photo. Mention you read my post for a 10% discount. This system is also available in a few other place nation-wide. (offer expires May 31st, 2006)

By Anonymous, at 8:45 AM
So actually what your saying "LASERBEAM" is you have a better system than the others? Well where is your system in the US? Or is it just in China... LOL

By Anonymous, at 4:06 PM
Your story mixes two products into one and is confusing. HP Photosmart Kiosk produces 4x6 prints. HP Photosmart Studio produces prints, calendars etc.

By Anonymous, at 8:30 PM