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Happy Holidays!
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From all of us at Lucidiom, we wish you a joyous holiday season and profitable New Year!
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Awards! Awards! Awards!
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For the second year in a row, the APM was awarded first place in the digital print kiosk category in PTN’s annual Top Imaging Products of the Year Awards. Every year PTN (Photo Trade News) polls its readers for their choices for the top products—those which made the biggest splash at their retail counters or were the fastest or best-selling throughout 2005. The winners will appear in the January 2006 issue of PTN.
Click here to read Lucidiom's press release about all the awards.
PTN also chose David Guidry, owner of Louisiana-based Lakeside Camera and Imaging, as its 2005 Dealer of the Year. Lakeside has been a Lucidiom customer since 2003. This is the fourth year in a row that a Lucidiom retail partner has won PTN’s Dealer of the Year Award. Guidry is featured in PTN’s December issue.
Read the press release from PTN here.
Photo Industry Reporter (PIR) chose long-time Lucidiom customer, Dan’s Camera City of Allentown, Penn., as its Photofinisher of the Year and featured the store in its most recent issue.
Read the PIR article online here.
Read the press release from Dan's Camera here.
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News Flash
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Offer MORE with Lucidiom's 4 New Template Packs
Four Specialty Template Packs for use with the Creative Collections/Greetings Card APM add-on component
are now available for sale from Lucidiom.
All templates are professionally-designed, work on the APM and come in both
vertical and horizontal orientations.
Good news! The prices listed are for a template site license, not per kiosk. This means
that for the price listed, you can install the template pack on every APM in
your store.
Click here to view a pdf of the designs contained in each pack.
- ALL 4 PACKS - $499
Save $197 when you purchase all 4 packs together!
That's all 50 designs, each in horizontal and vertical orientations and each in 3
or more sizes.
- Holiday Pack - $199
(9 card designs, each in 4x6, 4x8, 5x7 and 4 2006 calendar designs in 8x10)
- Creative Edges Pack - $199
(10 fun, colorful cards with no message, each in 4x6, 4x8, 5x7 and
5 fancy edges that are great for scrapbooking, each in sizes 4x6, 4x8, 5x7,
8x10, 8x12, 11x14 and 12x18)
- Stationery Pack - $199
(16 designs, each in 4x6, 4x8 and 5x7 for graduations, invitations, new home and thank you cards)
- Sports Pack - $99
(6 sports-themed designs, each in 4x6, 4x8 and 5x7)
Contact Lucidiom Sales at 703-564-2025 or
sales@lucidiom.com
to purchase.
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Introducing the Latest Addition to the Lucidiom APM Family: The APM 1100
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We recently unveiled a sleek new countertop kiosk--the APM 1100!
This model is silver and its most stunning feature is its 17-inch adjustable
touchscreen.
Other benefits include an optional credit card/magnetic stripe reader, two
USB ports for directly connecting thumbdrives and a back up set of media slots
on the side of the monitor, in case of emergency!
The APM 1100 supports a full range of digital media types: xD™ Picture Card,
CompactFlash®/MicroDrive, Memory Stick® Pro and Duo, SD/MMC™/MiniSD/RS-MMC,
and SmartMedia™. It also has a CD burner and DVD reader, runs on a Pentium 4,
3.0-GHZ processor with hyper-threading, and features 1 GB of hyper-threading
RAM for fast photo-order processing.
Click here to read the press release about the APM 1100.
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APM 7000 Shows Off in Vegas
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We will be showcasing our new APM 7000 at the 2006 International CES,
January 5-8 at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC). Retailers can choose to put two dye-sub
printers (4x6 and/or 5x7) in the base of the 7000, or give customers
a one-stop solution for both digital and conventional analog printing and
house a film drop box in the base. Just like all of our APMs, the 7000 can also be
connected to a minilab, for printing in-store or for sending jobs to a remote printing location.
At CES, attendees can use the APMs themselves to print custom greeting cards
or 4x6 prints for free at six APMs located at North 1, Central 2
and South 3 LVCC hall entrances. If you are attending CES, stop by one of the APMs
and try out our cool promo set of Vegas templates!
Click here to read the press release about the APM 7000 and CES.
If you plan to be there for CES, stop in and listen to one of CES's SuperSessions.
Lucidiom's president, Steve Giordano, Jr.,
will be participating in a panel discussion on Friday, January 6th from 3-4pm at the Sands. The free session,
"The Heir to the 1-Hour Photo Throne," will focus on how customers are consumers viewing, sharing and storing their
precious images in the digital age.
Read the program description here.
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Meet Lucidiom! |
Diane Robles, Technical Support Representative
Diane is a Southern California native who loves to travel. As a college student,
she completed five cross-country road-trips, the shortest of which was completed in
only three days. She grew up in Adelanto, CA and has spent summers living in Salt
Lake City, Saddle River (NJ), Las Vegas and Bethlehem (PA).
Diane graduated from Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA with a BA in Philosophy in May of
this year. Originally a computer science major, Diane has always had a passion for technology.
While studying at Moravian, she worked at the Center for Information Technology as a
Help Desk Assistant.
When not helping Lucidiom customers, Diane enjoys ice skating, rollerblading, traveling
and photography. This winter she’s looking forward to learning how to snowboard and
spending the holidays home in sunny California.
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From the Support Desk
New APM Version 3 User's Guide Now Available:
The updated User's Guide for APM Version 3 is posted in the support section of Lucidiom.com.
The Guide is up-to-date with the most current version of the software and contains a
screen-by-screen description of the APM software and its supporting applications, including the
relatively new Setup Wizard.
Click here to log in and view the pdf.
TIP for Template Installation:
When you install templates on your APM, use the Setup
Wizard on the APM to configure which
designs and sizes you want to offer.
If you manage your print workflow with the Print Station, you must also use the Setup Wizard on the
Print Station to map where each size card is printed. (If you do not use the Print Station,
this configuration is done in the APM's Setup Wizard.) You may also need to configure your printer driver
to accommodate any new template sizes.
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More Information
Don't forget to check our website regularly for support help and marketing
downloads, tips and materials. Visit:
www.lucidiom.com to see what's new!
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Your Feedback
We welcome your feedback on our products! If you have any marketing ideas, general requests, questions or
feature suggestions please send them in an email to newsletter@lucidiom.com.
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