[PrintOwners] web to print question

[John Henry]

Before Christmas a pretty good tread was going on the needs and wants of
intergraded print Management and web ordering system. Not like the current
ones that pretty much are 2 separate products with at best a handshake.

The type of product that would be a like what Printersplan-keycustomers is
but with website for printers or MOD fully intergraded. A real live
workstation on the web with customer web portal with full prefight, VDP and
file transfer.

I think it was Mike Stevens who asked would you pay $10,000 for this type of
solution. I and few others said yes.

I would like to take this one step further, the need is out their if a new
company were to create this solution from the ground up designed to do this,
would you switch to it?

MY View is all solutions out today were designed for one function; to be a
print management system or a web to print solution. They then try to bolt
together 2 systems that work well but do not meet current users need. No one
has been able to make the 2 work fully and may never.

Worse they all want to "own" their part of the pie and let others in but
only on their terms. JDF promised to open all this and make that system
fully work together. It has failed to do that as "open" has been a one way
street. Each vendor wants in to the other end "open" but will not fully open
theirs... Vista Print and others have made it work, it can and is being
done.

I guess what I am talking about is creating a whole new product. I am
willing to invest $25-50,000 in start up money. I think if 10-15 others also
did this we could pool $500,000 for the creation of this program. Hell I am
sure I can find some programmers over sea's who are willing to tackle this
for that. You bolt the VDP on, add, Jaws and the web end create the print
shell on to a database program and you're done- simple <G>. 

I know at some point EFI will get it right, just at what cost and how long
is the issue. If your web end or desktop management ends, what happens when
your competition gets it right? I would think both sides should be forming
partnerships that benefit both- real soon.





John M. Henry
Mitchell Printing & Mailing Company
125-129 East First Street
Oswego, New York 13126
(315) 343-3531
(315) 343-3577 Fax
www.mpcny.com
John at mpcny.com


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