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This section of WhatTheyThink aggregates all of the news, educational content, and analysis about the software that drives print businesses, from order entry through shipping and invoicing. It is combined in a single area so that our members and the industry as a whole can go to a single place to learn how software is changing the business of print and gain actionable ideas on how they may apply new solutions to their own business problems.

Product Spotlights

PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Empower Your Wide Format Print Production with PrintFactory

Customer requirements for color accuracy, print quality, and turnaround times in wide-format printing are becoming more demanding. PrintFactory empowers wide-format printing workflows with its renowned support for thousands of devices and easy-to-implement color management capabilities. It continues to expand its ecosystem to include desktop and cloud-based software. Pat McGrew takes a close look.

Product Spotlight: Connected Automation: Moving from Mass Production To Mass Customization

Atomyx a cloud-based platform that can both streamline the print business and production processes, while also reducing the skills needed to do the plant-wide automation integration to support production from Mass Production to Mass Customization. David Zwang takes a close look at Atomyx.

Product Spotlight: Canon’s PRISMA Home

PRISMA Home is a unique platform that houses valuable applications and tools in the cloud to help manage and support compatible print production processes. David Zwang takes a close look at how the PRISMA family has evolved.

Product Spotlight: PRISMAcolor Manager—On Cloud Nine

Canon’s PRISMA offerings include a wide range of applications and tools to help optimize print production workflows and digital printing production. These solutions have amassed over the life of PRISMA and have adapted to the changes in technology and production requirements, as their use requirements have changed significantly over the years. David Zwang takes a close look at how PRISMA has evolved, focusing especially on a recent addition to the software suite: PRISMAcolor Manager.

Product Spotlight: Getting Product Personalization Right with LiveArt

Consumers are no longer satisfied with only buying mass-produced products. Online and brick-and-mortar print shops have offered B2B and B2C buyers the ability to customize printed products, but the process is sometimes complex and hard to understand. Pat McGrew looks at LiveArt’s web-to-print services which address the gap between off-the-shelf web-to-print solutions available in the market and the growing needs of printers requiring more custom-tailored solutions for their clients.

Video

Product Showcase: XMPie and Hyper-Personalization
Product Showcase: XMPie and Hyper-Personalization

In this video sponsored by XMPie, VP of Marketing Ayelet Szabo-Melamed talks about hyper-personalized communications campaigns and the solutions XMPie has to streamline the process. Watch Video

Product Strategy: XMPie’s PersonalEffect Print Pro
Product Strategy: XMPie’s PersonalEffect Print Pro

In this video sponsored by XMPie, Director of Business Development Scott Houck talks about PersonalEffect Print Pro, XMPie’s software solution for creating high-volume variable-data print campaigns. Watch Video

Business Update: Fiery
Business Update: Fiery

In this video sponsored by Fiery, Pat McGrew talks with John Henze, Vice President Sales and Marketing at Fiery, about Fiery's long history in the DFE market and the company's current software offerings. Watch Video

CarbonQuota’s Steve Cumley on the Company’s First ePS Connect
CarbonQuota’s Steve Cumley on the Company’s First ePS Connect

In this video sponsored by eProductivity Software, CarbonQuota Customer Manager Steve Cumley talks about attending and presenting at the company’s first ePS Connect. Watch Video

Konica Minolta’s Mark Bohan at ePS Connect
Konica Minolta’s Mark Bohan at ePS Connect

In this video sponsored by eProductivity Software, Mark Bohan, Director, Color Solutions, for Konica Minolta, talks about Konica Minolta’s partnership with ePS. Watch Video

Business Update: Xitron at PRINTING United
Business Update: Xitron at PRINTING United

In this video sponsored by Xitron, Executive Vice President Bret Farrah talks about K2, the company’s new workflow management software targeted at offset shops. Watch Video

ISCorp’s Tim Roloff on ePS Connect
ISCorp’s Tim Roloff on ePS Connect

In this video sponsored by eProductivity Software, Tim Roloff, VP Business Development for ISCorp, talks about the value to his company of attending ePS Connect. Watch Video

John Callahan on Workflow Automation Software
John Callahan on Workflow Automation Software

In this video, sponsored by eProductivity Software, John Callahan, Workflow Automation Expert for All Systems Integrations, talks about Autoflow, a workflow automation platform built on Enfocus Switch and PitStop. Watch Video

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