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myPhotopipe.com Introduces FolioPrints
February 8, 2008 11:37:00
ESTMy favorite photo processor just got even better. Sit tight and let me tell you the story of myLove for myPhotopipe.com - then we’ll get to the new FolioPrints.
When family, friends or anybody asks me where they should get there photos developed, I tell them to go to myPhotopipe.com. The response I usually get is “huh”? After I explain to them that it’s a website that you can upload your digital images to - just like Kodak EasyShare Gallery - it generally clicks (no pun intended) with them.
Why myPhotopipe?
The thing I like the most about myPhotopipe.com is when I edit an image on my iMac, I send it to myPhotopipe.com and get the same thing back in a physical print (e.g., color, exposure, contrast, etc.). I’ve tried other services - a lot of other services. In fact, a couple of years ago, I took a single image, edited it and uploaded it to maybe a dozen different services. I tried everything from the cheap processors like Kodak, Shutterfly, Snapfish and York Photo to more “pro” services like Mpix and myPhotopipe. I got all the prints back, spread them across the table and started the process of elimination to find the best of the bunch.
The winner? myPhotopipe.com - hands down.
Don’t take my word for it though - iStockphoto uses myPhotopipe exclusively for prints from its massive stock image library.
More than two years later, I’m still using myPhotopipe.com for everything from a bulk order of 4×6 snapshots to the occasional friend or family member’s wedding photos that I get suckered into taking. Mind you that I am an amateur at this photography thing. I’ve got a day job and this hobby obsession of mine will remain something I do to entertain myself for the foreseeable future. However, I will remain picky about what my prints look like. If they don’t appear just like they do on my calibrated monitor, then I’m not going to be happy. Enough about me and myPhotopipe; let’s talk about FolioPrints.
FolioPrints: Idea to Innovation
Needless to say, when CEO Doug Keeney emailed me the info on FolioPrints, I tuned in to what he had to say. In an email exchange with Mr. Keeney yesterday, I learned the genesis of FolioPrints and found myself creating and ordering my first FolioPrints a short while later.
About the time I first discovered myPhotopipe.com, they were working with Homeland Security to find a way to have a fixed logo on a photo with a dynamic text box, so the Secretary could create personalized captions. Doug tells me that this was problematic trying to make a print template box more useful than just a standard insert box. In the end, after many trials and failures, they had a solution. Once they presented the solution to Homeland Security, against 14 other companies, including HP, myPhotopipe.com won the contract, which they still have today.
The rest, as they say, is history:
From there things started to roll. Now - it seems obvious, but at first it wasn’t. We worked within the ROES platform to create a product called PRPrints, a precursor to FolioPrints. PRPrints was a Homeland Security product adapted for celebrities and professional sports franchises. It made the job of creating an 8×10 for, say, Eli Manning, much easier. Load the photo. Spell check the name. Adjust the crop. And print 2000 prints for Eli’s charity appearance. It was an immediate hit.
(Actually, Jimmy Cribbs, the great one, the great photographer with the Falcons, saw what we were doing and was our first customer. He adopted it for the Falcons. Then Jerry Pinkus of the Giants and Dwight Spradlin of the Titans and Paul Abell, now with the Braves, and the Mavericks, and the Cowboys and the Buccaneers - the list goes on and on.)
- Doug Keeney
Media Information
Web address; www.myphotopipe.com
Logo art is available at: http://www.myphotopipe.com/media.html
Sample prints are available at: http://www.myphotopipe.com/media.html
About myPhotopipe.com, Inc.
myPhotopipe.com, Inc. is a web-based (2.0) online provider of digital photo processing, photo finishing, photo sharing, and related services. The Company’s unique blend of 104 print options, combined with manual print inspections and professional color management, have positioned myPhotopipe.com as one of the fastest-growing providers of digital photography services for professionals and serious amateurs.
The Company is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and its common stock is listed on the OTC Pink Sheets under the symbol “MPPC”. Additional information is available on the Internet at www.myPhotopipe.com.
This press release may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Act of 1934 that are subject to the “safe harbor” created by those sections. Such forward-looking statements are based upon current information and expectations regarding myPhotopipe.com, Inc. These statements speak only as of the date on which they are made, are not guarantees of future performance, and involve certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Therefore, actual outcomes and results could materially differ from what is expressed, implied, or forecast in such forward-looking statements.
myPhotopipe.com, Inc. assumes no obligation to update the information contained in this release. Any forward-looking statements in this press release may be materially impacted by any number of factors, any or all of which could have a negative impact on sales, operating results, financial and budgetary constraints. The statements made herein are independent statements by myPhotopipe.com, Inc. The inclusion or mention, if any, of third parties in this press release does not represent an endorsement of any myPhotopipe.com, Inc. products or services by any such third party.
For more information contact:
L. Douglas Keeney,
CEO 1- 404-881-3855 1670 Northeast Expressway OR RJ Falkner & Company, Inc., |
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