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6 6 S U B L I M A T I O N R E P O R T 2 0 2 2 G R A P H I C S - P R O. C O M 4 Fixed graphic designs: With this strategy, you'll need to design all your product artwork ahead of time and simply make a few products for displaying on your table(s). Customers will be able to pick out their favorite product and design for you to then produce for them at the event. is brings up the concept of vir- tual inventory. Typical gift shops buy dec- orated inventory that may or may not sell. So, at the end of the season it needs to be liquidated. With virtual inventory, you decorate inventory as needed with the ex- ibility of adding or changing designs. CONDÉ KIOSK Condé Kiosk allows you to set up shop almost anywhere. With this software in- stalled on your laptop and your laptop hooked up to a Wi-Fi router, your custom- ers will be able to walk up, connect to your Wi-Fi network, and upload their favorite photo(s) with just a few button clicks. e hardest part is waiting for your customer to pick out the photo they want to use. In most cases, no internet is needed. e one exception is when the desired photograph is in cloud storage instead of on the cus- tomer's phone. In this case, they will need to download the photo to their phone be- fore connecting to your kiosk. Important note: unlike emailing or texting a photo, the Condé Kiosk will always receive the full-resolution image. PROCESSING PHOTOS Once uploaded, Condé's Kiosk soft- ware places the photos into a folder on your laptop. ose images can then be resized by you to t your customers' se- lected products. While on your com- puter screen, show those adjusted imag- es to your customers for approval before printing and pressing. If you are han- dling lots of orders, a second monitor to face the crowd may help speed the pro- cess along. Keep in mind if you are us- ing an event template, you will need to place photos into the event template us- ing graphics software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, or CorelDR AW. For Sawgrass Print Manager (SPM) users, Condé oers a custom version of SPM that includes many bonus features helpful for kiosk printing such as managing multi jobs, resizing images, and multiple hot fold- ers for automatic printing. e Sawgrass Printer Manager allows you to resize im- ages on the y directly from the kiosk S U B L I M A T I O N R E P O R T 2 0 2 2 With this software installed on your laptop and your laptop hooked up to a Wi-Fi router, your customers will be able to walk up, connect to your Wi-Fi network, and upload their favorite photo(s) with just a few clicks.