By Noel Jeffrey Graphic arts businesses continue to probe cyberspace in hopes of discovering how communication, today's highest and best use for the Internet, can provide the basis for making money. Two companies with relatively new and activated solutions to nettlesome workflow issues symbolize the latest efforts to generate profit from Web power without igniting sparks of controversy regarding customer relationships. While their programs have similar functions, their services are set up very differently.
Printers have a real choice here.
The purchase includes an unlimited license so they may provide an unlimited number of customers with a free Macintosh or Windows desktop client. ASPs using the technology incorporate the capability in their service fees as a benefit to printer customers. To use the service, customers contact the printer's MarkzNet server and complete contact information and job ticket forms using any standard Web browser. The printer's server captures that information and transmits it back to the client application along with its own custom preflight rules. The client application then preflights the customer's job.