Project title: PRODUCTION FLOOR MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS AND PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS FOR PROFESSIONAL PHOTOLABS
Company name : M-PHOTO LTD.
TECHNOLOGICAL FIELD
Digital photography and digital
printing software
KEY WORDS
Digital Photography,
Digital Printing, Photolabs, Photographers, school photography,
School Photography, Sports Photography, Portrait Photography,
Events Photography, Image Processing, Photo
PROJECT SUMMARY
M-Photo has developed a comprehensive, vendor independent,
production floor management system for photolabs and print shops
using digital printing technology. The system is comprised of a
powerful backend engine and unique series of front end tools
which allow the shop's customers to create and send to the shop
electronic print orders for regular photo orders, school
photography orders and complete fully composed photo albums,
photo books, calendars, and more.
THE MARKET
The photofinishing market is covering small retail photolabs and
professional photolabs. The professional photolabs segment is
comprised of labs handling: large retail photography,
School/Sports photography, Portrait photography, Events (mainly
Weddings) photography. Worldwide, there are over 300,000
photolabs, with over 15% of those considered professional
pholabs.
The installed base of digital color printing machines today is
approximately 30,000 printers - about 80% of them sold by Xerox.
These machines are sold to corporations, print shops and
photolabs, for the printing of color documents, marketing
materials, etc. as well as photo books and photo albums.
ENTREPRENEURS
Mr. Rami Krispin - 28 years in
the high-tech market, founder and co-founder of several companies
around the world, mostly in the graphic arts marketplace.
Mr. Yacov Pluda - COO, 28 years
in the high-tech market, in the graphic arts marketplace: Scitex,
Shira and Psik.
Ms. Galit Rappoport - CTO, 11 years as
senior programmer in the high tech market: Peach Networks,
BuyPass Systems and more.
PROJECT STATUS
Since 2006, the company sold about 100 licenses of its product
line to photolabs and print shops worldwide. The company expects
to generate $250K from sales in 2007. M-Photo sells its products
via channels and direct sales. M-Photo has partnered with strong
distributers and channels including:
* Xerox in a several countries (Israel, Turkey, Slovenia,
Croatia, Poland, Czech Republic, South Africa (covering 26
African nations), India, and Russia (covering all former Soviet
Union countries plus Bulgaria and Romania). Additional
territories, including Western Europe and the US are expected to
launch early 2008.
* The Shimone group (Israel), also the exclusive distributor of
Fuji in Israel.
* Independent dealers in the US, Germany and Italy.
* Direct sales to customers all over the world.
COOPERATION REQUIRED
The company is seeking to establish OEM and distribution
agreements with manufacturers and dealers in the professional
photolabs marketplace world-wide.
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WEB: www.m-photo.com
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