Web Solutions

FreeFlow™ Web Services

FreeFlow Web Services Powered by Press-sense™ is a complete end-to-end web-to print workflow and management system that streamlines web-based ordering, prepress, and back-end production management within digital and hybrid print facilities. XL will deliver powerful training modules and courses to enable the team to fully understand these complex software opportunities.

Benefits - FreeFlow Web Services

For the Print Provider:

• FreeFlow Web Services version 7.0, powered by Press-sense™, is a complete end-to end web-to-print workflow and management system that streamlines web-based ordering, prepress, and back-end production management
• Enhances customer loyalty by easily connecting to customers, allowing them to receive jobs quickly and easily track jobs within their production facility.
• Reduces operational costs
• Improves pricing capabilities by easily managing calculation of charges with the customized pricing model based upon copies, sheets or pages.
• Takes "push-marketing" to a new level by targeting new markets, promoting additional products and utilizing marketing messages and cross-selling features
• Streamlines total fulfillment with automatic job routing to printing devices through seamless integration with the FreeFlow Digital Workflow Collection, providing a truly touchless workflow - including automated decision-making
• Opens growth opportunities by supporting both digital and hybrid print providers of all sizes

For the Print Buyer:

• Gives your customers the convenience of submitting orders over the Internet in a secure environment 24/7 - from virtually anywhere
• Enables two-way status and notification capabilities to enhance communications with your customer
• Attractive navigation tools and job ordering steps can be customized for novice or advanced user
• Enhances customer loyalty through seamless integration with the look and feel of any print buyer's native Internet location, building future print demand
• Customized shopping experience for users, accounts, and products (both content and presentation)

Features - FreeFlow Web Services

Provides strong back-end production-management capabilities:

• Tracks job submissions with automatic notifications to operators and status emails to customers as their jobs progress
• Virtually eliminates workflow errors and extraneous overhead costs
• Offers user-specific access to catalogs, ordering, and approval management
• Open system works seamlessly with other third-party systems and complies with most industry standards, including JDF and variable data print output
• Significantly streamlines print shop operations while enhancing customer service capabilities:
• Provides a single point of focus for job management
• Simplifies and streamlines ordering and payment processes
• Supports job submission from both PC and Mac, with security via user account password
• Supports PDF conversion either on the client or the server
• Enables dynamic, real-time price estimation during job setup and submission
• Easily handles reorders from your customers with a "shopping cart" approach that identifies costs up front
• Advanced GUI can define simple or complex jobs, customize the ordering sequences, and even prevent print buyers from ordering "impossible" jobs
• Enables integrated personalized printing capabilities:
• Supports basic text and image personalization with dynamically updated preview through a step by step wizard
• Optimizes variable data printing through VIPP Emitter, making it possible for any VIPP-enabled print server to achieve optimal variable printing
• Enables integration with third-party applications, including variable data generation, bar code printing, and variable campaign management
• Available options expand the functionality of Web Services to meet your advanced workflow needs

Key Applications - FreeFlow Web Services

Facilitates the order submission and customer interface tasks of any print production environment including:

• Commercial print
• Quick print
• In plant / CRD
• Book publishing
• On-demand publishing