LifePics and Direct Foto today announced that LifePics is now the digital imaging services provider for Direct Foto's wholesale photofinishing business. Direct Foto will use LifePics' online imaging service to support a number of its customers including Good Neighbor Pharmacy, Major Value Pharmacies, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Los Angeles Times (LA Times), and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Consumers will be able to order prints of their digital photos at the Direct Foto customer web sites and pick up the prints at one of 500 pick-up locations across the U.S. today, expanding to 2,000 locations when the rollout is complete.
"We are very excited to have Direct Foto as a customer," said Vahe Christianian, VP of Sales and Business Development at LifePics. "Direct Foto has a great set of customers with hundreds of pick-up locations across the country. Consumers are demanding the ability to order via the Internet and pick up locally, and Direct Foto is meeting that need."LifePics offers the most complete online imaging solutions to photofinishers and professional photographers. Using LifePics' technology, photofinishers and professional photographers are able to accept orders from consumers via the Internet and send those orders directly to a photofinishing lab that is most convenient to the consumer. LifePics allows consumers to pick up their prints at over 1,500 locations across the U.S. and Canada. LifePics' customers range from large food and drug chains to local camera shops and independent photofinishers. LifePics is a print option for popular photo editing, sharing, and blogging tools such as Google's Picasa and Novatix's SendPhotos. For more information, visit LifePics at www.lifepics.com.
Located in Brea, CA, Direct Foto is an independent wholesale photofinisher providing 35mm and digital services to retail, corporate, and college locations throughout the U.S. The goal is to provide both online and onsite digital printing solutions to capture the broadest range of customers possible. There is a desire from customers to have the convenience of instant prints through kiosks and also being able to order prints over the Internet and pick them up at their school, work, or retail outlet. Direct Foto has partnered with LifePics to fulfill its online printing and, in conjunction with Arrow Media Solutions, Direct Foto is placing photo kiosks in strategic locations to provide the complete digital solution. For more information, visit Direct Foto at www.DirectFoto.com.
