Montreal, Canada and Newcastle, UK – Taopix, world’s leading provider of personalisation and photo commerce software, and Ultimate TechnoGraphics, leader in imposition and finishing automation solutions, are proud to announce the enhancement of their valued partnership. The revamped alliance brings to the photo print market the tools to easily build an automated workflow for a wide variety of photos products such as photo prints, photo books and calendars.

The enhanced integration streamlines print production from order entry to print for printed photo products such as prints, books, calendars, masks and more. The award wining Taopix online photo personalization platform captures the unique photo orders and communicates the customer and job information to Ultimate Impostrip® which automatically generates the best imposition with proper marks and layout using advanced schemes like variable frame length and photos batching.

‘’Taopix offers an intuitive photo ordering process for end customers to easily create memories, stories and personalised merchandise. Once ordered, it’s all about streamlining production.’’, says Julie Watson, CEO of Ultimate TechnoGraphics. ‘’Taopix removes the hurdles of photo customisation and Ultimate Impostrip® removes the hurdles of print production of such products. We are delighted to partner with a reference in the photo segment to provide a solid automation workflow solution.’’

Taopix is a white label platform that empowers your business throughout the entire process of selling personalised products, from product design and tailored user journeys, right through to checkout and production. From photo prints, photobooks, canvases, and calendars, to mugs, keyrings, t-shirts and other gifts, Taopix lets you create bespoke user journeys for editing the pictures, text and layout for any type of personalised product.

‘’The variety of photo products brings its share of print challenges to printers’’, shared James Gray, CEO of Taopix. ‘’By adding the advanced automation and scalability of Ultimate Impostrip®, we are confident our customers will increase their profits on high-volume of personalized photo products.’’

Ultimate Impostrip® optimizes every aspect of the prepress imposition workflow with tools that are easy-to-use yet extremely versatile. It automates photo print production on digital press and finishing equipment, reduce waste considerably and keep track of every individual piece. It translates information gathered from upstream components like Taopix and uses production logic to generate batch tickets with all the asset references and information required and creates print-ready files on the fly.

To showcase the integration of their software solutions, Taopix and Ultimate TechnoGraphics will be hosting a collaborative webinar on Thursday, June 25th at 10AM EST (3PM BST). This one-hour session will show how commercial printers, professional photo labs and photo gifts retailers can increase their productivity and profitability by combining the two prepress software solutions. To register, visit https://imposition.com/webinar/taopix-ultimate-impostrip/

For more information on Ultimate Impostrip®, visit https://imposition.com/software/ultimateimpostrip, and for more information on Taopix, visit https://taopix.com.