printCafe vs. PrintTalk--Waging a PrintWar?

PrintTalk was formed out of that initial meeting and NPES, with previous experience as secretariat for both ANSI and CGATS standards organizations, was also brought on to act as a secretariat for the group.

While PrintTalk and printCafe have the same goal—to integrate the entire printing process, from creation to fulfillment—PrintTalk and printCafe go about their respective missions in very different ways. printCafe chose to form a company with applications that span the buyer to printer arena, while PrintTalk chose to create a non-profit organization to develop transaction sets to be used to exchange data.