Software - Web-to-print

The way to reach the minds and hearts of marketers is to present them with proactive solutions to the problems they face every day.

O'Neil is a technology-driven firm possessing a wealth of equipment, software and expertise to provide the infrastructure necessary to produce marketing communications and publications.

JDF's potential is yet to be realized, but there is another pathway for integrating MIS and production—shop floor data collection and direct machine interfaces (DMIs).

Rex Three's customers benefitted from exceptional service and faster turn times on projects due to its istallation of LithoTechnics Metrix software.

Mimeo.com went from being a business model on paper to an online print provider with more than 450 employees and nearly 300,000 square feet of manufacturing space spread across three strategically located production facilities.

Transcontinental has made a concerted effort to automate operations for several years now, originally with the use of scripts and hot folders to automate specific tasks.

The business runs on custom, proprietary software developed by Badten and his co-workers. It was one of the earliest ecommerce platforms that could convert both Macintosh and PC files to printable formats.

In my first article, I began scratching the surface of the issues designers (and printers) face as they prepare files for print. To recap, I surveyed print providers and prepress technicians to find out how graphic designers can better prepare those files. Here are a few more tips from the survey.

It was difficult to avoid seeing or hearing the phrase “web to print” (W2P) at PRINT 09. The concept has been with us since the late 1990s, in the heady days of the dotcom bubble.

The workflow concept is being extended even further to achieve a continuum of production capabilities that can span from digital (toner and ink-jet, including wide-format) through sheetfed and web offset printing. This means having an integrated workflow that can feed all of the printing platforms, as well as implementing color management and having substrates available to “match” the printed results across the board.