No wonder the financial community is interested in print, Harvey observed. E-commerce can streamline print buying procedures. Collabria technology vp Robert Hu said printers need to seize the moment in shaping how e-commerce for printing will be implemented, not allowing user market vagaries to drift. This creates unguided non-standard industry solutions that have, like desktop publishing, grown like topsy for 15 years. Noosh industry relations mgr.
Every participant has access to all communication and changes that go on.
There is also more accountability as all job events and activity can be easily tracked. He also said printCafe will remain open to interfacing with other outside systems. William Lavelle, dir. of industry relations for Impresse Corp. noted users of print also are already experiencing savings in buying print via e-commerce. Whirlpool Corp., a Fortune 1000 client, reports it had reduced internal print order processing time from 12 days per job to about 3 days by cutting internal paper work. Harvey said several industry-wide initiatives are underway to help generate software developers tools to assist both users and developers of industry software.