Inkjet & Digital Printing

Registered Users of Fuji Xerox Net Print Service Offered at Seven-Eleven Stores Top One Million

Friday 29. April 2011 - Boosted by Tie-Up Services and Increasing Smartphones Users

The total number of registered users for the Net Print Service, offered by Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. through multi-use copiers installed at Seven-Eleven stores, exceeded one million.
Fuji Xerox launched the Net Print as the industry’s first print service for mobile users in 2003. The service was first offered to corporate customers, and later in the year was expanded to personal users. The service allows documents and photos registered at the Net Print Center, the file storage site on the Internet, to be printed from a multi-use copier installed at Seven-Eleven stores, by entering an eight-digit confirmation number. As users can print at any store across Japan, the service has been gaining popularity for both business and personal uses, as a convenient service when on business trips or away from home.
In order to meet wide-ranging printing needs, Fuji Xerox has been expanding the functions of the Net Print Service through tie-ups with other firms. In addition to integration with a storage service, the company launched the Seven-Eleven Storefront Printing Service in 2007, a digital photo printing service for Windows Vista users. From 2008, it started to reinforce tie-ups with various mobile phone services, and in 2009, linked the Net Print to a SaaS-based service for the first time. Thus, the Net Print Service has become a means for printing from online services offered by other firms.
Other services under the Net Print include the Contents Gallery launched in 2003, which offers contents to print for business use or personal enjoyment. The convenience of being able to print only necessary pages from thick maps or music scores has attracted many users. The user base has been expanded by offering various contents that are otherwise not easily available, such as a boat-racing newspaper only sold near the racing venue, or photos of popular rock bands sold in conjunction with their lives. Many businesses use the service as a content mall to sell their digital contents online, and the Contents Gallery currently offers more than 25,000 items.
In addition, along with the increasing popularity of smartphones in recent years, Fuji Xerox launched netprint, an iPhone application, in June last year. The company upgraded the application in January 2011 so it can be also used by iPad users, and reinforced its linkage with other applications in February. There have been more than 200,000 downloads so far, gaining more users rapidly.
Fuji Xerox will exhibit the Net Print and its smartphone application at the 1st Smartphone & Mobile ExpoNote1 that will be held at the Tokyo Big Site from May 11 to 13.
Fuji Xerox will continue not only to strengthen tie-ups with other services and smartphone applications while improving usability to boost personal use, but also to provide new values to business users, so that the service becomes a part of their everyday work.
Note 1
The 1st Smartphone & Mobile Expo will be held at East Exhibition Hall, East Hall 1 of Tokyo Big Site, and is sponsored by Reed Exhibitions Japan Ltd.