Kodak Alaris on Wednesday announced a new iPad app that will let users quickly create and print photo books from their images, offering them a same day in-store pick-up feature that may certainly come in handy on some occasions. Kodak Moments HD is now available as a free download from the App Store for iPads running iOS 7.0.1 or later.
The app features an intuitive interface, Kodak’s Perfect Touch Enhancement technology, which help users improve their pictures, and the Smartfit technology that preserves the content of images no matter their size. Users will be able to pick images from the iPad’s Photos app, but also from Facebook, Instagram or Flickr, create photo books of any size or quantity, apply effects, and even wirelessly connect to Kodak Picture Kiosks found at Target and Bartell Drugs to order prints. Customers will be able to order their photo books for home delivery as well.
Kodak Alaris already has a similar iPhone app that lets users quickly order prints – the My Kodak Moments app, which is also available as a free download from the App store. An Android version of Kodak Moments HD will be available in the future, with Kodak Alaris planning more features for the app that will arrive in upcoming updates.
The full press release follows below.
New KODAK MOMENTS HD App for iPad Offers Easy Solution to Create and Print Beautiful Photo Books Fast
Tablet App One of the First to Offer Same Day Pick-Up of Customized Photo Books, Prints and Enlargements
ROCHESTER, N.Y., April 2, 2014 – Today, Kodak Alaris introduces the KODAK MOMENTS HD App, one of the first iPad apps that lets busy consumers create beautifully designed, professional quality photo books, and order prints and enlargements with same-day pick up in store or ship to home capability. This product launch is another proof point of Kodak Alaris’ commitment to meeting consumer needs in the mobile world with innovative, easy to use products and services. Featuring a slick design, intuitive interface and KODAK Perfect Touch Enhancement Technology, the app makes it simple for anyone to create personalized photo products instantly.
“Building on more than a century of technology innovation, we’ve provided tools for people all over the world to easily capture and preserve their most important memories,” said Darren Johnson, vice president and chief growth officer of Kodak Alaris’ Personalized Imaging. “With the enormous increase in images being taken and stored on digital devices and online, the KODAK MOMENTS HD App using our unique technology makes it easy and effortless for consumers to turn their photo memories into a story.”
The newest app from Kodak Alaris is specifically designed for tablets to take advantage of their larger format and drag and drop functionality, making the creation of photo books in various sizes and printing images easier than ever before. The KODAK MOMENTS HD App features Smartfit Technology that preserves the content of pictures no matter what the size, including difficult panoramic shots, and KODAK Perfect Touch Enhancement Technology for even better looking pictures. Users can create photo books or select size, quantity, edit and/or apply effects to prints and enlargements on their tablet, or wirelessly connect to KODAK Picture Kiosks at major retailers including Target and Bartell Drugs.
Accessing images is fast and easy, including those from your iPad photo stream or from favorite social media sharing sites, notably Facebook, Instagram and Flickr.
The app’s intuitive user interface and workflow takes consumers step-by-step from image selection to final product. Even the newest iPad users will be able to effortlessly create photo memories.
The KODAK MOMENTS HD App is now available for download on the Apple App Store on iTunes; a version for Android devices will be released soon. Planned updates will feature a broad range of photo products including customized greeting cards, photo collages and calendars.
About Kodak Alaris’ Personalized Imaging Business
This business combines a unique heritage, expertise and ongoing innovation to market high-quality imaging products and services online, in store and on mobile devices. Kodak Alaris’ Personalized Imaging business consists of Retail Systems Solutions, the world leader in retail photo kiosks and dry lab systems, offering retailers a competitive advantage in the photo services market; Paper & Output Systems, offering photo specialty retailers, professional and wholesale labs, and photographers the broadest portfolio of traditional photographic paper and workflow solutions; Film Capture, offering consumers and professionals an award-winning range of still-camera film products; and Event Imaging Solutions, providing digital souvenir photography services and solutions at theme parks, iconic destinations, resorts and other markets worldwide.
For more information, please visit http://www.kodak.com/go/PI and our blog, 1000Words. Follow us on Twitter @kodakCB, on Facebook and on Instagram @kodakcb.Kodak and Kodak Moment trademarks are used under license from Eastman Kodak Company.
