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Running a Fotova booth
Short guides for the things operators actually have to do — setting up an event, getting a print to come out right, and locking the iPad before you walk away from it.
Getting started
Set up your first event and run a session end to end.
- Create an eventEvery session belongs to an event. Set one up with the client's branding before the day.
- Launch the boothHand the iPad to guests, and understand what they see from attract screen to thank you.
- Delete an event or its photosTwo different things, deliberately separate: removing the guests' photos, or removing the event.
Capture
Countdown timing, cameras, and how many shots a session takes.
- Countdown timingThe lead-in before the first shot and the gap between the rest are set separately, for good reason.
- Cameras and the shutterFront, rear or a connected camera — and what guests see at the moment the photo is taken.
- Extra shots and curate modeShoot more frames than the template needs, and decide whether guests pick the keepers.
Effects & the idle screen
The look guests get, and what the booth shows when nobody is using it.
Templates
The print template decides how many photos a session takes and how they compose.
Printing
Connect printers, run more than one, and get the margins right on paper.
- Connect a printerAdd an AirPrint printer to this iPad's fleet, and check it is reachable.
- Run more than one printerPrinting is the bottleneck at a busy event. Add printers and jobs spread across them automatically.
- Edge compensationIf your prints lose their outer margins, this is the setting that puts them back.
- Nudge the print into positionIf every print lands off-center on the paper, shift it across or down until it sits right.
- USB-only printers (DNP, Citizen, HiTi)These printers are not on the network. Here is what works today and what does not.
- Auto-print, copies and reprint limitsWhether the booth prints on its own, how many, and how to stop a media roll disappearing.
Sharing & delivery
How guests get their photos, and how long those photos last.
- Sharing channelsQR, email, AirDrop and SMS — what each is for, and which one is not sending yet.
- Edit the SMS messageThe text guests receive with their photos, and the email sender that sits beside it.
- Gallery, GIFs and retentionThe cloud gallery, the automatic animation, and how long any of it survives.
Running a booth
Lock the iPad for guests, and get back out of it afterwards.
Settings
Language, devices, and what this iPad keeps.
Account & billing
Your plan, your invoices, and closing your account.