Web+To+Print

**__Web to print__**

"the preferred approach to the marketing and sales environment." ===**Web-toPrint,** also known as__ Remote Publishing __ or__ Web2print __ is a commercial prepress process that bridges the gap between digital content online and commercial print production. This process allows a print house, a client, and possibly a graphic designer to create, edit, and approve computer-based online templates during the prepress phase ===

=__**How-web-to print is used today.**__ = Web-to-print is targeted toward commercial users or to the general public, and both groups may access public or private online storefronts or catalogues offered by print houses. Within these storefronts, customers can choose pre-designed templates where they can alter the typeface, copy, images, and layout within a template, or approve a template layout and design that has been created by another person. While most Web-to-print applications allow clients to customize pre-designed templates it also frequently possible for clients to upload their own unique content for automated pr int production. When a digital press is used for the final output, the template usually is transformed into a PDF file that serves as the ‘master plate’ for the digital press. In more traditional printing processes, like offset printing, the template is used to create a plate or plates that are used to produce the final printed product.

= **__This is how web-2-print works.__** =

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= = = = = = = = = = ==== First you have the **Design** of the product. Then once the product has been made then you choose the place you want to buy from which comes the second step which is the **Payment** of it product. After the payment has been accepted then it goes to **Production**. Then after the production the **Shipped **directly to you, and the process can start all over again. ====

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=__Users of Web-to-print __= The main company that uses web to print is called Vista Print

=__Using-And Choosing-Web-To-Print And Print-To-Web __=

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"the preferred approach to the marketing and sales environment."

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Simply put, web-to-print is a browser-based software application that lets printers sell their wares online. More than that, it facilitates commerce, collaboration and/or customer service interaction between those who buy print products and those buyers and sellers of printed products. Web-to-print is nothing new, starting with the onset of e-commerce in the 1990s, say InfoTrends consultants.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In making the industry tradeshow rounds this year, most recently GRAPH EXPO and PrintWorld in Toronto, it is evident just how many web-to-print suppliers are out there today. At GRAPH EXPO alone, more than 40 exhibitors brought some type of web-to-print solution to Chicago. Some names are familiar, such as Avanti Computer Systems, GMC Software and Printable Technologies; others are newer to the scene -- Aleyant, PrintSites and Prisme Technologies' PrintSYS product. (// PN // readers, please note that this report is not a product roundup and is not intended to be comprehensive.)

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">**Recent developments** __ The main challenge for Web-to-print expansion is centered on both the affordability of this solution and software and hardware companies' abilities to converge desktop vector-graphic tools with server technologies designed expressly for a Web-to-print goal. While specific software set the stage for major print houses to offer Web-to-print services to corporate clients and to the general public, [|brand name] software companies have nudged into this business to offer mid- to high-range solutions.

=<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">__ Advantages and Disadvantages __ =

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Advantages**

 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Web-to-print system include the ability for print houses, graphic designers, corporate clients, and the general public to access a private or public online catalog where last-minute changes to a prepress template are possible.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The client can approve the materials without the need for a face-to-face meeting with the printer. Additionally, templates allow print customers to control [|brand management] and content, as portions of a constantly used template can remain consistent throughout a series of print projects. This system is often cost-effective for clients and time-effective for print houses.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Disadvantages**


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The disadvantage to this system as it exists today is that small- to mid-sized print houses and print [|brokers] are limited in their access to software and server system solutions for a Web-to-print service offering to clients. Most proprietary and trade name software that was developed with Web-to-print projects in mind remains prohibitively expensive for this sector. Additionally, these systems often require the use of digital systems that only a larger print house would maintain.

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