ROCHESTER, N.Y. — ImageXpres Corp., a digital imaging and printing systems solutions provider, announced that it has entered into a business partnership with WebRaiser Technologies Inc., provider of software for the self-service economy, to co-develop new-generation multimedia/photo kiosks that will be marketed and serviced by ImageXpres.
The agreement between the two companies provides for the integration of WebRaiser's award-winning VendiPix self-service photo-processing software, with ImageXpres' family of iPrint Digital Kiosks. The joint effort by the two companies will result in a U.S. deployment of Internet-enabled digital photo kiosks with enhanced online POS retail functionality. The ImageXpres iPrint Digital kiosks, powered by VendiPix software, will feature new digital consumer on-demand fulfillment services tailored to specific market segments, such as specialty retail, convenience stores, hotels and hospitals.
The first units with the new functionality are being installed in August at several pilot locations, including a Chevron/Texaco convenience store in Atlanta, a major hotel chain and a medical hospital in the Northeast.
"WebRaiser is the perfect partner for ImageXpres, because they bring the highest levels of self-service expertise and kiosk industry credibility to the photo kiosk world," said John Zankowski, president and chief executive of ImageXpres. "Integrating our combined technologies into the ImageXpres iPrint Digital Kiosk product line should create a new industry standard for online digital photo kiosks. If we take into account digital photo-processing speed and quality, along with kiosk reliability and scalability, we believe our iPrint Digital Kiosk, with the VendiPix software engine, is the photo kiosk that resellers, retailers and consumers have been waiting for."
