Connect with your customers’ world while streamlining your own.
Get the best of both worlds. FreeFlow Web Services, Powered by Press-sense is a Web-to-print solution that gives your customers 24/7 access to your services. But
that’s just the half of it. It also fully automates your workflow by integrating ordering, file creation, customisation, approval, printing, and delivery—so you can become a strategic partner to your customers, while improving the productivity of your entire organization.
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FreeFlow® Web Services, Powered by Press-sense
1. FreeFlow®
Web Services,
Powered by Press-sense™
Connect with your customers’ world
while streamlining your own.
Digital Workflow Collection
FreeFlow®
Web Services
2. Connect with customers.
Streamline your operation.
Get the best of both worlds. FreeFlow Web Services, Powered by Press-sense is a
Web-to-print solution that gives your customers 24/7 access to your services. But
that’s just the half of it. It also fully automates your workflow by integrating ordering,
file creation, customisation, approval, printing, and delivery—so you can become a
strategic partner to your customers, while improving the productivity of your entire
organization.
More than meets the eye. With FreeFlow Web Services, you get more than just
a Web-to-print storefront. You get an end-to-end workflow and management plat-
form that integrates and automates Web-based ordering, prepress, production, and
delivery to boost your efficiency, reduce your operational costs, and open up new
business opportunities.
Good for your bottom line.
To grow your print volumes, you need to be able
to reach your customers, provide them with
quality products and services, and keep them
satisfied. That’s why FreeFlow Web Services
includes thumbnail-based job catalogues to
make ordering, tracking, and reprinting jobs
remarkably simple. In addition, it can help you
grow your business through cross-selling different
applications to your existing customers,
targeting new markets using the mail-to-print
functionality, or integrating an HTML catalogue
into your website to approach potential
customers. Any way you look
at it, FreeFlow Web Services is designed to help
you grow your business:
• Increase job volumes
• Repeat business from simple reprints of
stored files
• Obtain more customers and a larger share
of
customer print buy
• Provide 24/7 access and service
• Reach new customers, markets, and
organizations
• Offer new services easily: e-business,
targeted campaigns, and personalization by
using variable capabilities
Good for your customers.
Customized Web-to-print solutions give your
customers unprecedented control over their
printing by providing them with 24/7 access to
your services. They save time and money by
submitting, tracking, and paying for their jobs
online. Plus, they can get estimates, spending
reports, soft-proof PDFs, job tickets, and more
whenever they need them, from anywhere in
the world. And you can customize the user
experience on a customer-by-customer basis,
based on the type of job that they’re ordering—
from simple document options such as paper
type to complex specifications like lamination.
With FreeFlow Web Services, you
can meet the needs of any customer:
• Tailor workflows to specific client needs
• Streamline workflow and provide
value-added services
• Increase customer loyalty
Good for managing your
production back end.
Wouldn’t it be great if you could get more jobs
in and out the door than ever before while
reducing your operational costs? With
FreeFlow Web Services, we’ve made it easy to
do just that. By enabling your customers to
handle their own job ordering, tracking, and
payment, you take
the responsibility off your staff—so they can
spend their time on securing new business.
What’s more, FreeFlow Web Services lets
you update job status, delivery, and billing
information quicker than ever before. The end
result is a more streamlined workflow across
your entire operation:
• Free up staff for mission-critical tasks
• Put customers in control of their jobs
and assets
• View, edit, and print documents on the fly
• Submit jobs to any printer in your shop
• Web Services offers full web-to-print
submission from print buyer to production,
fulfilment and delivery. The open system
works seamlessly with other 3rd party
systems and complies with most industry
standards, including JDF
3. Good for your flexibility.
A wide range of optional, add-on modules for
advanced capabilities makes FreeFlow Web
Services the most comprehensive solution
available today:
Order Centre#
consolidates Web, phone, fax,
and walk-in orders into a single application.
Site Customisation lets you provide your
customers with customized Web portals that
match the look and feel of their brand.
Book Assembly offers your customers the ability
to produce dynamically bound books using
multiple or individual files.
Credit Card/Online Payment enables secure
online payment with credit cards or online
payment using popular e-commerce sites like
PayPal™, Authorize.net®
, and more.
LDAP Adapter enables user authentication
when logging into the system by way of a
directory service.
Data Export reduces errors by enabling
operators to easily export data from Web
Services directly to peripheral systems—including
accounting and estimating—as well as Excel®
spreadsheets. This module is required for, and
integrates with, the LDAP Adapter.
Variable data printing capabili-
ties.
Integrating personalized printing capabilities
is a critical part of your print e-business.
Web Services enables you to provide these
capabilities in these ways:
Base Web Services Personalization supports
basic text and image personalization directly
within Web Services via a step by step Variable
Information “Wizard” with dynamic preview
capabilities. No incremental tools are needed to
build or set up basic personalization.
VIPP®
Emitter#
optimisesyourvariabledata
printing
by making it possible for any VIPP-enabled print
server to achieve optimal variable printing.
Direct Marketing Links enable integration with
third-party applications, including variable
data generation, bar code printing, and more.
DirectSmile Image Generator*#
allows users
to incorporate personalized images generated
with DirectSmile into a Web Services template,
creating unique variable documents.
XMPie®
PersonalEffect™ Adapter*#
enables
XMPie PersonalEffect users to integrate a robust
Web ordering capability with state-of-the-art
XMPie PersonalEffect variable campaigns.
Take your business to the
next level with FreeFlow
Web Services.
Connect with customers.
24/7 access makes it easier for your
customers to do business with you while
email order confirmations, job tracking, and
up-to-the minute spending reports increase
their satisfaction and help build loyalty.
Reprint on the fly.
With digital job archives, your customers
can order reprints whenever they’re
needed—freeing up your skilled opera-
tors to perform more mission-critical tasks
like seeking out new business.
Offer additional services.
Variable data document templates make
it easy for you to offer your customers
personalized applications that provide a
high return on investment—and the ability
to easily create online repositories for any
customer helps strengthen your bottom line.
Accelerate your workflow.
A powerful toolkit enables a highly
customized specification process, while
automation streamlines your operation
by allowing you to manage documents,
print queues, job status, and more
without intervention.
FreeFlow Web Services, Powered by
Press-sense combines with other products
from the FreeFlow Workflow Collection
to deliver workflow solutions that help
you connect with your customers, enable
more applications, and reduce costs.
Web Services opens up a new revenue stream by making it easy to create customised Web portals on a
customer-by-customer basis.
* Requires Web Services Direct Marketing Links optional module.
#
Will be available in post launch.