Suomalainen Lehtipaino Oy, the leading Finnish newspaper contract printer will be launching a new ad portal solution as a complimentary service to all titles printed in its facilities. The solution will be based on Flowman's Ads2Press advertising workflow. It provides an easy to use web interface for submitting advertising artwork, receiving preflight reports and approving softproofs. It integrates deeply with existing prepress workflow to ensure 100% accuracy of preflight and soft proof.

"Ad portal provides our customers – newspaper and free sheet publishers – an easy way to improve their customer service" says Tenna Talvi-Pietarila, development manager for Suomalainen Lehtipaino . "It also improves overall business process reliability by making sure very early on that third party content meets the technical requirements of the print process. Previously defective content was often only seen when outputting the final pages, which could lead to costly delays or other issues in process".

"It has been a pleasure to work with Suomalainen Lehtipaino Oy" says Risto Partanen, product manager at Jaicom Oy . "They have been always keen to be in pole position when it comes to utilising new concepts in the print industry. This decision proves that they are committed to keeping that position."

Suomalainen Lehtipaino Oy is a privately held printing company, established, which root reach all the way back to 1846. Today it is a dynamic print service organisation utilising modern technology. It's modern Tensor press in Kajaani, Finland , prints over 50 regularly issued titles and numerous ad hoc print jobs for direct advertisers.

Jaicom Oy is a leading Scandinavian solution provider and system integrator for print media business. It has offices in Finla n d and Sweden and its team of 29 IT-professional s serves over 250 titles around Scandinavia. Jaicom is the sole Flowman integrat ion partner in the Scandinavian market.

Flowman Oy is a Finnish high-tech company dedicated to streamlining business processes in the print media industry. The company combines best Finnish automation and software practices from different industry sectors with its own pre-press production background to develop new ways to manage business processes. Flowman has its headquarters in Oulu – "the silcon valley of Finland".