VDP: Web-to-Print In the Real World

Printers may also find themselves facing other issues, such as the need to ensure the financial security and confidentiality of customer data and a variety of other problems such as Spim, Spam, DDoS attacks, data hacking and more. For this reason, some Web-to-print providers feel the need to operate these services on a parallel network with its own servers and firewalls, with main operating databases entirely separate from e-commerce systems (customer histories, real-time production tracking/shipping data, accounting and billing functions, supplies ordering and other vital data). This translates into even greater cost.