Introduce yourself!

[Barry Gainey]

Web4print

Web4print

Hi Everybody my name is Barry and I work for a company called Documation ( but I tend to call it web4print because its easier for people to remember!)

We are a software development company based in Dublin Ireland. We work largely with printing companies or companies that have a regular print output and our main aim is to help them save money and expand their business. We do this through increasing job accuracy, reducing turn around time and strengthening customer loyalty.

In short we provide Web-to-print solutions. More and more options seem to be available each week, but we pride ourselves on providing an extremely customizable solution at a far lower cost than our competitors. I'm aware of various companies which offer a less comprehensive system than ours for prices in the region of $30 - 80k!!! Ours costs a fraction of this!

Anyway I’m involved in marketing for the company so I thought I’d check out what’s being said in the industry!

Feel free to come talk to me any time!!

[email protected]

 

[SteveInBoston]

I'm Steven. I work in Boston area prepress company as Electronic Prepress Op. Mostly involved in, but not limited to, packaging, litho, flexo, gravure & dry offset. We do lots of unconventional work for consumer corporations. Our set-up is Artpro/Nexus/Backstage with Kodak NX & Epson GMG at the back end. Any help in these areas will be greatly appreciated in advance.

Regards

 

[Chris Cullen]

Hello All

Hello All

Hello All

My name is Chris from the UK. I work largely in a sales capacity for a recently formed print group called EZ print. We plan to launch our new online print service in the near future.
I'm really on here just to hear the views and opinions of the community and to learn a few things from the experts!

Thanks for having me

Chris

 

[Marlyn Terrence]

Introduce yourself

Introduce yourself

we have many years of experience designing high quality professional graphics and advertising material, we are the one source for all your Companies Design, Process and Printing needs. We believe to be successful, you must lead… And, know when to follow. Becoming a leader is a lot of hard work and does not come cheap. We give you the competitive edge necessary to become a leader in your marketplace. Follow us, we want to work with you, expand on your ideas,and create the program best suited to your needs and budget.Our company can generate all types of artwork. As a full service graphic design,print ad, and web site design company, SivakasiPrinters.com has the ability to handle any project from start to finish.We can supply you with creative print ads, Brochures, catalogs, post cards, boxes, media packages, company logo's, and all corporate graphic material.
SivakasiPrinters.com is making high-quality graphic design and custom printing convenient and affordable for everyone.

http://www.sivakasiprinters.com

 

[Barry Gainey]

Your new site

Your new site

Hello All

My name is Chris from the UK. I work largely in a sales capacity for a recently formed print group called EZ print. We plan to launch our new online print service in the near future.
I'm really on here just to hear the views and opinions of the community and to learn a few things from the experts!

Thanks for having me

Chris

Hi Chris I had a look for your website but it obviously isnt up and running yet?Are you going to be using web-to-print technology with the new site and if so how far along are you in the making the decision what solution you to choose?

Best regards

Barry

 

[jnfish]

Jnfish

Jnfish

Prepress in this current recession has really hit me hard. I have had my pay slashed, ego smashed, and job cashed! Anyway I am currently laid off and searching for a new career. If you have any idea's or know of any work in the Chicago area, feel free to email me at [email protected] Thanks, John

 

[adco]

Hello...Please read this or I'll get fired!

Hello...Please read this or I'll get fired!

Hello Everyone!

I'm the IT Manager and Web Developer for ADCOPrint.com. We are a Tampa Printing company. My job is to basically understand, deploy and manage websites, web2print, and run IT operations here. We launched a new website with web2print this week Tampa Printing, Wholesale Printing Tampa, Tampa Print. After hundreds of vendor interviews I'm tired!

What do you guys think about web2print? Some people are placing entire initiatives on it and others want nothing to do with it. I personally think it's great for basic items, corporate repeat items etc.... but generally don't think it will really be a hit to create more complex items....at least not yet.

Look forward to talking with you guys!..and No I'm not getting fired now!

- Brian

 

[Tshepho]

Hi

I am a prepress manager for a small vibriant printing company is Johannesburg, South Africa. Our setup is CD 102, SM 74, Suprasetter 105 and Signa Station and MetaDimension and all publishing programs. Hope to learn a lot from you guys.

Thank you for having me.

 

[jkenler]

Re: Introduce yourself!

Hello all,

I'm the former owner operator of a small indie record label who has joined up with a friend's event and street team marketing company and been assigned the task of starting up an in house digital print arm. The idea is to vertically integrate the print services with the rest of the biz and start printing the handbills and posters that our clients are sourcing elsewhere.

We've got a Canon Imagepress C1+ and a Duplo DC-615 and run it all in a Mac environment. This is my first time on the other side of the printing process, so I'm really encountering a steep learning curve.

My big issues at the moment are all related to imposition. Only recently did i realize that there were more affect tools to print multiple items per page than manually laying out in InDesign. Of course the imposition features on Fiery's CWS are only windows compatible, so short of running parallels or such, does anyone have a recommendation for an OS X native imposition application? And for that matter, what other advantages do imposition software packages offer over my rudimentary InDesign method?

thanks
-j

 

[Chris Cullen]

Web-to-print

Web-to-print

Hi Chris I had a look for your website but it obviously isnt up and running yet?Are you going to be using web-to-print technology with the new site and if so how far along are you in the making the decision what solution you to choose?

Best regards

Barry

Barry,

Your right our website is still in the development stages and we hope to have it up and running by the end of the year, fingers crossed. We certainly want to use a Web-to-print solution but are only in the rearch stage as of now. I had a quick look at your website and didnt see any specific section on your web-to-print solution. Any additional information would be appreciated.

Chris

 

[Barry Gainey]

web4print

web4print

Hey Chris

First of all thanks for checking out our website. We are actualyl in the process of designing a brand new website that I think will be far more useful to users. It will still be Web-to-Print solutions for Variable Data Printing document production but we've been working hard to have it broken down into sections to make it much easier to navigate. I will let every one know when its up and running as i'd love to hear some feed back.
In terms of our web-to-print offering, although we are not amongst the industry big boys right now, we feel that we can match them in terms of functionality and beat them in terms of customisation and price.
We offer both a hosted and a licenced solution. The hosted solution has set up costs of around €750 with a monthly fee of around €150. Compare this to set up costs of $8995 and monthly costs of $1000 for EFI and $9990/ $1000 for press-sense.

Our licensed solution starts at €12500 which is considerably cheaper than bitstream $30,000, Kodak $26,000, Printable $74,000 and thats just to name a few!!

The question im sure your asking is whether our system is as good?! I would be more than happy to demo to you so you can make that decision yourself.

Your UK based? where abouts? we are located in Dublin

Barry

 

[Tao]

Hi everyone

My name is Tao a new member in Print Planet. I'm living in chonburi thailand.
I am currently a mac-operator for biggest label printing company in thailand.
I working with artpro, adobe cs4, and nexus workflow.
Looking forward to doing some reading and research.

Regards,
Tao

 

[Shogall]

Hello everyone, I'm from Costa Rica, Central America and i've my own printing business, i have 2 docucolor 252 with external Fiery. I've my business since 2006

I'm a graphic Engineer and i work a lot of years in ad agencies and then with Xerox like Color Specialist

Hello from Costa Rica

 

[Village Print]

Hi-

My name is Andrew Harary and I am the SVP of Operations and partner of Village Print- a 24/7, on demand digital print provider in the heart of NYC. We run on Indigo 5000 and Docucolor 5000 presses. We also have a wide format dept that runs HP Dreamcolor machinery. We run both Mac and PC stations, and my prepress techs have a complete knowledge of most software suites. The company has been in existence for 35 years. I have been involved for the last 13. I have managed all 3 shifts at our corporate location and have managed a few of our 5 retail locations as well. Even as an owner of the company I am currently engaged in heavy amounts of sales work (as I'm sure many of you are). Business has been more of a rollercoaster ride as of late, and I am hoping to get back to a more even flow in Sept.
I have a beautiful wife who puts up with my crazy hours, and 2 amazing little girls ages 4 and 2.
I like the work hard, but play harder way of life. My hobbies are snowboarding (i dream about powder year round), fishing, volleyball, cycling, running. We are always looking for good offset matches for our company, so if you happen to be nearby let me know.

Nice meeting you all-

Andrew

[email protected]

 

[HockeyJewel]

Hello everyone - My name is Deb, I have been in the "Prepress" biz for 30+ years, from early stripping to now CTP era. (Taught a few years at the local comm college in the evenings - Graphic Production 101)
I am working for a Direct Mail house in Florida, (here almost 12 years) have two Presstek Dimension 400 plate burners, (one set up with Presstek plates (Anthem - not Pro) one for Agfa Azura TS (will be converting the Anthem one over with-in the next few months, or sooner) We us a Nexus workflow, and Preps to do impositioning.

 

[espinosamjl]

Hola my name is J. Luis

Hola my name is J. Luis

I'm working for my own as a consultor in Mexico.
I'm trying to help the printing industry to understand the basic technichs for color reproduction. Not all of them knows about it.
Most of the graphic arts technicians working in our industry need training about what they are doing every day in their worflow to make it right, profitable and reliable.
I hope I can find here knowledge for better help them.

Regards

José Luis Espinosa M.

 

[Royale_Graphics]

Hi

Hi

Hi my name is Colette, I work for a print management company called Royale Graphics based in the UK. We have been in business for the last 20 years.

 

[Pearl Maxwell]

Hello all

Hello all

Good day every body,

My name is Pearl and I own my own electronics distributions company called pearl of wisdom. We regularly use print products to promote the company so i'm having a sniff about for ideas and suggestions. I'm probably most interested in information about automated solutions for creating print products such as catalogs and brochures and other marketing materials.
Any adivce much appreciated

 

[2GoTools]

Hi everybody,

My name is Steve Byrne and I am the branding manager for a print aggregation software company called 2gotools. Our system provides custom portals that allow our corporate clients to order their printed marketing materials with the push of a button. The system selects from a large pool of data on printing vendors and then matches the print job with best possible price with the right printing solution. We believe the aggregation advantages of this system is similar to those of Priceline, LendingTree and the like and as such this system will revolutionize the printing industry over the next several years. Thanks for your interest.

[email protected]

 

[Criminy]

Hey Steve, welcome. I guess I'm not the only Byrne here. Woo-hoo!

Chris BYRNE, a.k.a. "Criminy"