PIXSY Kiosk Software Ver.
DESCRIPTION
The new version of PIXSY software is the fourth
created in six years. It is a very mature version,
consolidated through years of experience, in
different European countries, with different
habits and peculiarities.
The PIXSY software allows to order any type pf
Photo-product, with a real handling of multi-
product shopping cart, with a new interface
enriched of pleasant animation effects,
extremely simple and intuitive, guiding the
Customer, step by step, through the order cycle
and with a solidity and robustness typical of all
Alimpix products.
• Performance and speed: the software is so well performing that it can
• User interface and ergonomy: the following are just some of the most
• Optimised Media card handling and Image loading: a qualifying point of
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HIGHLIGHTS
• The new generation of Photo-Kiosk software: a completely renewed user
interface, enriched of pleasant animation effects, extremely simple and
intuitive, guiding the Customer through the order cycle, step by step.
• Multi-product shopping cart: the Customer can order more different
products within the same order cycle.
• The fastest software in the market place: an efficient and highly
optimised handling of image loading makes the PIXSY software the fastest
one in the market place.
• Pre-paid cards: the only software allowing Customers to pay their orders by
using their own Photo-account, pre-loaded with credit amounts.
• Advanced offerings: a new sophisticated and advanced logic by which the
Store/Lab can pre-define actions, messages, texts and prompts, that will
dynamically and automatically pop-up on the Kiosk based on what the
Customer has purchased, in order to better respond to growing requests
from Retailers to accommodate new functionality and new marketing
features.
• Bundles: possibility to create bundles of different products. The Customer
is guided in the selection and in the composing of the images to apply to
each individual product of the bundle.
FUNCTIONS & FEATURES
efficiently run even on very slow dated kiosk hardware. Most of the
competitors’ kiosks require much more powerful and more expensive
hardware configurations.
significant design guidelines that Alimpix has followed while developing
PIXSY Version 4:
- always few action buttons on screen to simplify and speed-up selections,
- any action always opens a new screen populated only with the buttons
pertinent to that screen,
- the DONE and BACK buttons always at the same place, on any screen,
- prompting the user on what to do next,
- more complex products, such as Print from Print, or CD burning, are
password protected in order to get the assistance from the staff.
This is just what our customers tell about PIXSY Version 4:
- very simple,
- intuitive: no need of training,
- very clean: not messed up with lot of buttons,
- super-fast: no long waits while media loading.
PIXSY Version 4 is the efficiency in Image loading from media. As soon as
the Memory card is inserted, the Customer can almost instantly start
operating his choices, without having to wait until the end of loading.
Additionally, if the user selects the 1st and the last image of a very big
memory card and confirms the order even before the loading has
terminated, the program will skip all unselected images and will complete
the loading of the only two selected images, thus avoiding to wait long until
end of media loading. Furthermore, the kiosk software allows the Customer
to load more than one media within the same order flow.

• Automatic Image rotation: based on the analysis of the Exif
information, images are automatically rotated while being
loaded, thus avoiding the Customer to rotate them, manually,
one by one.
• Image enhancement and auto Red-Eye reduction: PIXSY
Version 4 can be configured with an optional module for
automatic Image Enhancement and Red-Eye reduction. This
extra optional feature can be configured to operate in two
modes:
- manually: it is the Customer that decides to apply Image
Enhancement and Red-Eye reduction, on a image by image
basis, and then decides whether to confirm the enhanced
image or to keep the original one;
- automatically: Image Enhancement and Red-Eye reduction
are automatically applied to all images; this is distinctly
configurable per output printing device; e.g. automatic
enhancement could be applied in case of printing to the local
miniLab or Dye Sub and manual enhancement in case of
24/48 hours print service, when sent to a remote Lab.
• Real multi-products shopping cart handing: PIXSY Version
4 does allow the ordering of different products within the same
order flow and from within the same media card. Not many
competitors’ kiosks offer the same functionality. The majority of
existing kiosk software in the market place allows ordering of
different types of products, but in separate orders, thus obliging
the Customer to exit and re-enter for any product. PIXSY
Version 4 allows to order any type of Photo-product: Prints,
Posters, Collage, Gifts, Calendars, Books, Cards, etc. The
ordering of Calendars and Books is extremely simple, fast and
guided through very few steps, in few seconds.
• Active advertising and promotion: together with the
functionality of a true handling of multi-products shopping cart,
as described at the point above, PIXSY Version 4 also includes
a sophisticated and advanced module for prompting and
advising the customer, during his order process, with user
definable “Upsell screens”. Depending on what the Customer
has already put on his shopping cart, the kiosk software
prompts him with proper messages and pop-up screens telling
him about special offers or special products.
• Bundles: possibility to create bundles of different mixed
products, such as, 100 6x4” Prints + 1 Mug, for example. The
definition of the Bundle guides the Customer through the
Bundle ordering and composing procedure, helping him to
select, at first, the 100 images for the 6x4” Prints and then the
Image for the Mug.
• Quick and easy short-cuts for adding other products to the
shopping cart: on the final page of the bill, before closing the
order, there are some extra short-cut buttons to quickly add
promo products to the shopping cart. These buttons can be
fully user definable in terms of:
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- the image and the text to place on the button to highlight the
offer,
- the action they trigger: which product to add to the cart.
E.g. the button “Add a Mug for 4.99 €”, when clicked, will
automatically bring the user into the window where the user
selects the image to compose his mug: nothing more is needed.
• Price calculation: PIXSY Version 4 is using the same pricing
engine of the NOVAX Server system dedicated to Production
and Billing management of a Photofinishing Lab. It allows very
powerful and flexible mechanisms for price calculation,
including features for price validating events, quantity actions,
Promo codes, Dependencies, validity dates, additional fixed
costs, variable prices by qty, etc.
• Compatibility to various printing devices: PIXSY Version 4
is currently compatible to following devices:
- all miniLab brands: the orders are truly spooled to the miniLab
printing queues without implying any manual handling at the
miniLab side;
- Dye sub printers: compatible to any Dye sub printer having a
Windows driver; supports Matt and Glossy printing in case of
Sony; supports printing of two 6x4” prints on a 6x8” Ribbon to
optimise ribbon savings;
- Laser printers: supports page rendering and printing in
“Duplex” mode, for double sided printing;
- Hot-Folder: normally used for products implying a certain level
of manuality in production, such as the case of photo-gifts.
• “Ready to Print” format: any ordered product (single image
or multi image/page) is delivered as Ready to Print. No
manipulation is needed at the receiving side. Furthermore, in
case of FTP upload, any image is scaled down to the DPI
printing resolution of the receiving remote Laboratory.
• Automatic order split: automatic “Split” function to address
each physical ordered product of the shopping cart to the
appropriate pre-set handling Output device: MiniLab, or Dye
Sub, Laser printer or remote FTP address. An order, for
example, might have some prints requested for instant printing
onto the local Dye-Sub and some other ones for a 48 hours
service and uploaded to a remote FTP Server.
• Versatile and flexible configurations for Output/Print
handling: based on the Kiosk hardware and on the store
configurations, the handling of the physical Output to the pre-
set output devices can be localised in two different places:
- on the Kiosk itself: this is when the kiosk hardware is powerful
enough to handle the rendering and the output to the device
while accepting and handling a new order, at the same time;
- on a centralised Store PC receiving orders from all connected
Kiosks and then managing the output to the appropriate pre-
set devices.