All Systems Integration and Pageflex
Partner to Build Web-Top Publishing Systems
Joint clients combine infrastructure and software
expertise for customized on-demand printing to shorten time to market
and raise response rates
CAMBRIDGE, MA December 16, 2002
Pageflex ( Nasdaq:
BITS ), a pioneer and leader of Web-top publishing, the next wave
of technology to follow desktop publishing, announced today a new
partnership with All Systems Integration (ASI). The two companies
will join forces to help ASI clients implement start-to-finish, print-on-demand
systems for localizing and personalizing marketing campaigns using
Pageflex Mpower and .EDIT. Based in Woburn MA, ASI supports the integration
and workflow requirements of all publishing organizations connected
to a digital infrastructure, including printers, publishers, corporate
marketing communications groups, advertising agencies, pre-press trade
shops, and in-plant service bureaus. Well-known ASI clients include
Quebecor World, American Power Conversion, and Tiffany and Company. Combining systems integration expertise with Pageflex composition
technology is an ideal way to develop full-service solutions for
Web-top publishing projects. As ASI co-founder Steve Shinnick explains,
"Our printing industry clients were demanding online variable-data
solutions that spanned the workflow from concept to production,
and when we searched the market for a best-of-breed Web-to-print
vendor for one-to-one marketing applications, we concluded that
Pageflex was the clear leader. We were especially impressed with
the way Mpower and .EDIT let untrained end-users compose and edit
variable content easily and successfully within professionally established
design guidelines."
Pageflex General Manager David Frenkel added, "Working with established
systems integrators is a cornerstone of our marketing strategy for
Pageflex products. All Systems Integration brings to the table considerable
strength in infrastructure development and deployment. The partnership
also offers Pageflex connections to many successful printers across
North America.
About
About All Systems Integration
Since 1989, ASI founders Ted Vahey and Steve Shinnick and
their expert, dedicated, and personable technology team have been
serving the technology integration and workflow requirements of
companies associated with the digital and electronic pre-press environment.
Clients have ranged from high-end cataloguers, retailers, large
advertising agencies, and in-plant marketing departments, to commercial
printers, communications companies, and pre-press trade shops.
Pageflex
Pageflex ( www.pageflexinc.com) is the pioneer of a new direction
in composition software: Web-top publishing. Moving beyond desktop
publishing, our Web-top publishing software helps novice users create
high-quality printed products using intelligent, flexible templates,
without installing or learning any new software. Pageflex templates
are intelligent and flexible because professional designers can
set rules to define which elements can change, how much they can
change, and who can change them. Our products maintain corporate
identity and design integrity while enabling sophisticated customization
of documents. Pageflex also leads the field in variable-data composition
software for both enterprise and desktop.
Pageflex software is used for a wide variety of applications, including
on-demand marketing materials, stationery and business cards, advertising,
catalogs, and personalized digital printing. Pageflex products are
distributed through original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), value-added
resellers (VARs), applications service providers (ASPs), and system
integrators (SIs). The Pageflex worldwide customer base includes
manufacturers, service providers, advertising agencies, commercial
printers, graphic design houses and ASPs. Users of Pageflex products
include Xerox, IBM, Ford,EFI, Coldwell Banker, Wunderman, Mail-Well,
httprint, and Spire.
The Company was established in 1999 as a wholly-owned subsidiary
of Bitstream Inc. ( Nasdaq:
BITS , www.bitstream.com
).
What makes Pageflex software different from all other
composition systems?
Desktop publishing requires users to install expensive software
and master superior design techniques. With Web-top publishing,
even beginners can turn out high-quality printed products, without
installing or learning any new software, by using Pageflex intelligent
and flexible templates.
Unlike ordinary templates, these have sophisticated built-in rules
that offer users a wide range options to change graphics and text
while preventing them from making design blunders. Executives and
designers can relax, knowing that a remote branch can generate local
content without corrupting the corporate brand and identity.
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logo are trademarks of Pageflex All other trademarks are for identification
purposes only and remain the property of their respective owners.
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