Software - Web-to-print

Greetings from South America! I am spending my summer working for Heidelberg in its lead market, São Paulo, Brazil. Similar to my time with Heidelberg in Germany, I am working within the company’s integrated workflow system, called Prinect.

Publishers converting their libraries of books to eBooks may find it problematic, given a test run by the Flemish Innovation Center for Graphic Communication that found tools for converting PDFs to EPUB files scored an average of 30 percent accuracy.

LithoTechnics Inc., developer of the Metrix automated job planning and imposition system, announced that the company will begin trading under the name Metrix Software. “Since the company has focused exclusively on enhancing the Metrix product line and building our customer base, the market has come to know us as simply ‘Metrix,’” explained Rohan Holt, CEO.

Through the combination of FedEx Office Print & Go and Google Cloud Print, customers can now access and print documents anytime, anywhere. Users can submit print documents from Gmail and Google Docs on their mobile device, or from the Chrome Web browser for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Chrome devices.

The Sheridan Group has expanded its Electronic Content Services (ECS) commerce platforms to allow integration with Sheridan’s Print-on-Demand (POD) system, Journal Anthology support, and the ability to auto-import multiple titles into the system. File conversion services, encryption using digital rights management, and the ability to streamline eBook and publication distribution to online retail partners (i.e., Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc.) are options offered through Sheridan’s ECS.

Japs-Olson is pleased to host the next Automation Solutions Network meeting on Sept. 18-19, 2012, in St. Louis Park, MN. The network focuses on the development and practical implementation of automated workflow systems and cross-vendor implementations.

The “cloud”—once the purview of IT geeks and software developers—has gotten personal. For several years, there’s been a movement to transition software from the desktop or local server to the cloud. One example is Web-to-print software, typically offered as Saas (software-as-a-service).

The proliferation of emerging technologies has dictated a re-birth of the printing industry.

The printer's role prior to this digital era was to put ink on paper. The printing companies that are successful today are the ones who realize that their role is to keep an eye on technological breakthroughs and evaluate how they apply specifically to their customer base.  It is no longer about just printing, but rather about selling integrated cross media solutions.

While a number of printers are trying to "get in the cross media game", this webinar is designed to share with you what is working and what isn't.

Key concepts that will be explored include:

- Critical resources required to successfully implement a cross media campaign
- Identifying the right decision makers
- Selling strategies for effectively delivering your value proposition
- Advice from practitioners that are evolving their business models on the opportunities and pitfalls

Sponsored by Allegra Network

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Who could have imagined only three years ago you’d be able to access all relevant management information from your printshop by using an app on a smartphone? Or, allow your clients to view, annotate and approve jobs on their iPads?

Starting a Web-based business four years ago has been the right move for New York-based digital printer Best Value Copy, the online division of Red Rose Document Solutions. As many long-time customers began to discontinue their printed jobs as their jobs migrated to the Web and no longer were being produced on paper, founder Robert Stokvis, and his son Mark Stokvis, vice president of sales and marketing, decided to create an Internet printing company, Best Value Copy, to offset the decline in their traditional print-on-paper business.