Ed Murphy is the Managing Director of Ireland based PrintOrigin. He was formerly Managing Director of the Snap Printing Franchise in Ireland and the United Kingdom. Under his direction, Snap Printing won the International Franchiser of the Year Award and achieved ISO 9002 throughout the group. Ed was also President of Grosvenor Building Services Inc in the USA and is a member of the British and Irish Marketing Institutes.

PrintOrigin provides a private marketplace configured to the individual buying habits of an organization for the management of their print. Using the power of the Internet, they radically improve the efficiencies of procurement and processing for the benefit of both buyers and suppliers. This is achieved by the use of their core products – OriginFiles, OriginProof, OriginQuickcut, OriginRFQ, OriginCatalog and OriginLocator.

Ed, having examined your services and products, how does PrintOrigin handle prepress and asset management without the normal offline haggles?

OriginFiles is a powerful file management software that allows an organization to upload, organize, archive, retrieve and transmit valuable digital files over the internet.

An organization gains control and ownership of their valuable digital assets, such as logos, images and corporate documents. This control ensures greater efficiency in the printing of corporate image.

A company can allow internal and external users the ability to view and access any of the files through a password and standard web browser, which gives the ability to edit, proof and transfer files online, dramatically improving quality and reducing administration time and costs.

Our proofing product (OriginProof )is a unique web-based, collaborative proofing solution that provides unequalled imaging quality for remote soft- and hard-proofing. Harnessing the efficiencies of the internet OriginProof revolutionizes the proofing cycle by enabling workflow partners to collaborate in real-time on original, full-resolution production files. Based on new innovative technology, gigabytes of high- resolution files can be viewed in seconds over a dial-up connection, thus allowing users to proof their original files from anywhere at anytime.

The business of digital ad delivery is a hot topic at present because magazines and newspapers want to receive files that have been through some kind of filter to make sure that they don’t have to spend time with technical delays. How do you help these companies?

The QuickCut solution does full online quality assurance checks against predetermined specifications. Publishers and printers place their specifications on the QuickPrint database, choosing from a list of about 120 variables.