Buena Park’s Noritsu America Corp., a maker of photo software, scanners and printers, said Monday it plans to buy a maker of self-service photo printing kiosks for stores.
Noritsu, part of Japan’s Noritsu Koki Co., is set to buy Vienna, Va.-based Lucidiom Inc. for undisclosed terms.
The deal is expected to close in the current quarter.
Lucidiom makes self-service kiosks are used in stores that allow customers to upload photos from the Internet, discs and storage cards and order prints of photos and other related products.
Noritsu said it plans to leave Lucidiom’s East coast operations and management team intact. Lucidiom has roughly 50 workers in all.
Under the terms of the deal, it will also get Lucidiom’s British operations, which serve customers in Europe.
Noritsu has about 100 workers here.
Big customers include professional photographers, the military and Walgreen Co. stores.
The two companies teamed up on a product launch earlier this year.
In January, Noritsu and Lucidiom debuted a packaged photo kiosk and printer combination for retailers that allows consumers to make enlargements, greeting cards, calendars, posters, signs, scrapbooks and other items from their uploaded digital photos.
Noritsu has a long history here. It’s been in Orange County nearly three decades.
The company was the first to pioneer one-hour photo development in the 1970s.
