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Execution & Automation is the new “Value Add”
PSPs have struggled for years to differentiate themselves from their competition. As a first year MBA student is taught, there are only three positions by which a company can differentiate itself: price, superior service or niche offerings that competition does … Continue reading
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Tagged automation, C2P, CFO, commoditized, convenience, conventional print, differntiator, digital press, EFI, execution, General Motors, HP, IGEN, Indigo, integration, Kodak, Komori, Konica Minolta, M & A, marketing services provider, MBA, mergers and qcquisitions, MIS, Mitsubishi, Nexpress, path of least resistance, POLR, prepress, price and turn, print buyer, print buyers, print service provider, processes, PSP, Ricoh, tuck-in, vendor, W2P, web to print, workflow, Xerox
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W2P, PSPs and the Enterprise
W2P is a technology that has only been around for about 10 – 15 years. I consider it a tweener. W2P offerings are all over the place. (A google search of “web to print” returns about 6,220,000 results.) Most have … Continue reading
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Tagged apple of hope, cloud, CMO, conventional print, CRM, cross media, digital press, EFI, email blasts, enterprise, Gurls, HP, IGEN, Indigo, Interlink One, Pageflex, PDF, print service provider, Printable Technologies, process, PSP, PTI, Purls, Ricoh, SaaS, salesperson, software, storefront, VDP, W2P, Wall Street, web to print, workflow, Xerox, XMPIE
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W2P Advice to PSPs: Part 2 – Employee Evaluation
PSPs are not in the business of due diligence or evaluations. Most are small to middle regional players who are being forced into technologies to retain their client base. This makes them vulnerable to the slick willy salespeople who frequent … Continue reading
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Tagged B2B, cloud, credence goods, digital press, EFI, HP, IGEN, Indigo, IT, Konica Minolta, marketing services provider, print service provider, PSP, SaaS, salesperson, VDP, W2P, web to print, XMPIE
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W2P Software By Itself is Just Another Piece of Useless Expensive Iron
In a recent W2P article, it’s quite interesting that all quotes are by vendors. Their shortsightedness reveals just how out of touch these vendors are. Their understanding of W2P along with their incomplete and thus ill-advised recommendations, are the advice of … Continue reading
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Tagged architect, articles, B2B, Benny Landa, blogs, build it and they will come, cloud, Digital Output, digital press, Direct Smile, DirectSmile, disruptive, framework, HP, HP Indigo, IGEN, Indigo, iron, knee jerk, Kodak, marketing service provider, marketing services provider, mSP, nano press, nano technology, Nexpress, PI, Printing Impressions, program based, project based, PSP, PSPs, retreads, trade rags, VDP, W2P, w2p platform, w2p vendors, web to print, workflow, Xerox
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Web to Print Resource Guidelines for Digital Press Owners
So you’re a traditional conventional printer. You have a mid-to-high level digital press capable of professional quality output. You’ve got desktop software and you’re more than capable of using it for VDP jobs and mailings. Let’s assume your prepress department … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, conventional print, CTO, digital press, EFI, HP, IGEN, Indigo, Kodak, Konica Minolta, marketing services provider, MIS, Nexpress, portal, portal engineer, prepress, print service provider, Ricoh, SaaS, software, storefront, VDP, W2P, web to print, Xerox
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Am I a Candidate for Web to Print? How Do I Find Out?
Buying a system which you cannot support with your current staff can mean a huge loss and having to start over in the future. Many providers write off their systems and end up on the sideline because it’s just too … Continue reading
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Tagged cloud, counter intuitive, digital press, EFI, HP, HP Indigo, IGEN, Indigo, integration, IT, it-security, Kodak, Konica Minolta, marketing services provider, MIS, Nexpress, operational, prepress, print service provider, process, Ricoh, SaaS, software, substantial client base, technology, VDP
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Web to Print Players
Who are the players in web to print? Web to print players include software providers, equipment providers, paper providers, integration providers and service providers. In the world of print which is becoming more grey every day, the food chain ends … Continue reading
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Tagged B2B, B2C, EFI, HP, HP Indigo, Indigo, Kodak, Konica Minolta, Oce, Pageflex, Printable, Printable Technologies, PTI, Richo, Ricoh, Xerox, XMPIE
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Web to Print Explained
Web to Print is one of the most misunderstood and misstated topics in today’s marketing and communications arena. It’s not necessarily intentional, it’s just severely over-simplified by those who sell it, underutilized by those who purchase it and misunderstood by … Continue reading
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Tagged HP, IGEN, Indigo, Kodak, Konica Minolta, marketing services provider, mSP, Pageflex, print service provider, Printable, Printable Technologies, PSP, PTI, Ricoh, ROI, SaaS, VDP, W2P, web to print, Xerox, XMPIE
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