Case Studies

Colonial Printing & Canon Solutions America

Successful commercial printers can drive more volume with fewer touches, directly from a client’s smartphone to their doorstep with Aleyant's cloud-based ecommerce platform, Pressero. See how Rick Herr improved his digital operations at Colonial Printing by introducing private storefronts for his regular clients, improving the productivity of his print floor and freeing up more hours in the day for his sales teams to sell. Pressero is a Win-Win for this commercial printer and his clients.

Fenway Group & Canon Solutions America

Discover how the Fenway Group, a communications company in Boston, Massachusetts used Pressero software and the Canon imagePRESS C10000VP Digital Color Press to improve productivity and customer turnaround time. This partnership allows customers to order their branded product on demand from wherever they are. Allowing customers to bypass customer service, personalize print materials within the software, and send it straight to production. Creating a seamless transition from ordering to finished product has created a long lasting business strategy for the Fenway Group.

Business Cards Express

Marc Forest, Vice President at Business Card Express, spent 35 years in the world of commercial print. Business Card Express’ owner, Carl Lehmann, brought Forest on board in 2015 to help the company enter the world of web-to-print. “The industry took a hit in 2008,” Forest says, “and many smaller printers went out of business. Carl saw the need to take the company to a more modern infrastructure that could o er 24/7, anytime/anywhere access, making it easier for our trade customers and large organizations to get the products they need – quickly, accurately and a ordably.” In looking for a solution, Forest was determined not to purchase any silo-based solutions.

Blue Octopus

Blue Octopus was looking for a robust print procurement solution to support a project with a Midwestern state. The solution needed to efficiently handle fast turnaround work submitted through a web-to-print catalog, as well as custom printing from a single, user-friendly interface. It needed to be able to manage an extensive list of catalog jobs as well as transparently manage vended-out work that fell outside of the defined set of standard products. Vended work required three quotes to meet the State’s requirements.

Parksons Graphics

When Parksons Graphics introduced digital print to the mix in 2012 with the acquisition of an HP Indigo 5600, the company realized it needed to streamline operations to be able to more profitably handle the shorter run digital work and to make it easier for customers to place orders online. This initiated a search for a web-to-print application that could meet these needs.

British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)

Aleyant donated Pressero and eDocBuilder to BCIT for classroom use. BCIT students were able to use Aleyant Pressero web-to-print and its eDocBuilder variable data tool to create web-to-print sites and documents, and to then produce their products in our state-of-the art production lab with electrophotographic, inkjet, offset and flexo presses.

NextPrint

While NextPrint had been using Web2Print for some time, its system needed to be updated. The company was seeking a new solution that could meet the needs of today’s demanding print environment, including HTML5, the ability to integrate with its Fujifilm XMF workflow, and an easy-to-use customer-facing Web interface that would help them attract new customers as well as better serving existing ones. NextPrint chose Aleyant Pressero™ to meet its eCommerce needs.

Grafica Eskenazi

Brazilian company Grafica Eskenazi founded more than 50 years. The company operates from a 9,500 square meter plant with about 200 employees and provides commercial printing focusing on books, magazines and leaflets for large and medium-sized enterprises throughout Brazil.

Brasileira empresa Grafica Eskenazi fundada há mais de 50 anos. A empresa opera a partir de uma planta de 9.500 metros quadrados com cerca de 200 funcionários e oferece impressão comercial com foco em livros, revistas e folhetos para as grandes e médias empresas de todo o Brasil.

Simple Solutions Print and Marketing

Simple Solutions Printing, located in West Frankfort, IL, was founded by Tim Grigsby in 1993. The company has grown organically over the ensuing years to include offset and digital printing, a complete sign shop, and embroidery and screen printing for apparel. Simple Solutions has continued to expand its infrastructure and offerings to accommodate new customer requirements and new business opportunities.

Bagelstein

Founded in 2011 with a single restaurant in Strasbourg, France, Bagelstein specializes in delivering healthy food in a fun environment. Founded by two entrepreneurs, the business expanded to three restaurants and in excess of €1 million in revenues in its first year. After attending the Franchise Exposition in Paris in 2012, Bagelstein rapidly began adding franchise stores and has grown to 45 restaurants across France and one in Luxembourg, with plans to more than double the number of stores by the end of 2016 with expansion within France and internationally.

SantaSentMeALetter.com

In 2006, entrepreneurs New Jersey Kelly Easterling and Preston Hunt were feeling in the Christmas spirit when they decided to start a business aimed at helping Santa communicate personally with children. As volumes continued to grow, they began looking for a more automated way to manage and process the growing number of orders they were receiving. They chose Pressero, and along with the eDocBuilder variable data publishing system, they are now efficiently managing thousands of orders each season.

Australian Commercial Printer

A mid-sized Australian commercial printer, this company offers offset, digital and wide format printing as well as a full suite of finishing solutions. With printing, finishing and distribution in one facility, it is able to meet the tightest of deadlines with its talented staff of 55. The company chose Pressero from Aleyant for its next generation web-to-print solution, initially implemented for B2B customers but migrating also to public (B2C) sites.

University of Wisconsin Parkside

Since 1968, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has been enriching minds and changing lives of those who attend. One of 13 four-year institutions within the University of Wisconsin System, Parkside has a student population of more than 4,500 served by more than 250 faculty members. Its Creative Services Department, which reports to the Chief Information Officer, offers a broad array of print and non-print products and services to the University community. Creative Services has 5 full-time, 2 part-time and 7 student employees operating its all-digital shop.

PrintStore

PrintStore was founded in 1993 and has offered web-to-print services since 2003 using a home-grown Flash-based system. The company primarily serves various industries, production lines, training teams, dealers, franchises and internal team operations throughout Brazil. Its primary printing technology is HP Indigo for high quality on-demand digital printing of business cards, stationery, folders, catalogs, brochures, manuals and other printed materials used by its clients in the normal course of business. In addition to this B2B offering, PrintStore has a B2C offering, EuImprimo (in English, I Print), offering a wide variety of template-based forms, business cards and stationery.

A PrintStore, fundada em 1993, iniciou os serviços de impressão pela internet (web-to-print) no ano de 2003 através de um sistema baseado em Flash desenvolvido internamente, o qual foi utilizado até 2012. Atende principalmente indústrias, linhas de produção, equipes de treinamento, distribuidores, franquias e operações de equipe interna em todo o Brasil. Sua tecnologia principal de impressão digital sob-demanda de alta qualidade é a HP Indigo, produzindo cartões de visita, papel timbrado, pastas, catálogos, folhetos, manuais e outros tipos de materiais utilizados pelos seus clientes. Além de oferecer serviços no modelo de negócio B2B, a PrintStore também trabalha com o mercado B2C, onde através do site EuImprimo oferece uma grande variedade de modelos de cartões de visita e papelaria.

DigiCOPY

DigiCOPY was founded in July 2000 with the opening of facilities in Eau Claire and Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The company quickly laid a foundation for growth and development as it added a third location in Wausau just a year later. Today, DigiCOPY has grown to nearly 100 co-workers in 14 locations (seven of which are facilities management locations) in six major Wisconsin cities. Now in its 13th year of service, DigiCOPY is poised to continue expanding throughout the Midwest and beyond.

Impresión Integral

Impresión Integral is a full service commercial printer with locations in Mexico City and the City of Querétaro, enabling the company to service countrywide printing needs. In fact, Impresión Integral offers 24-hour delivery of business cards to all of the principal cities in the Republic of Mexico. The firm was founded in 2007 and has 10 employees.

Impresión Integral es una imprenta comercial de servicio completo con oficinas en Ciudad de México y Querétaro, lo que le facilita prestar sus servicios a todo el país. De hecho, Impresión Integral ofrece entrega en 24 horas de tarjetas de visita a todas las principales ciudades de la República de México. Se fundó en 2007 y tiene 10 empleados.

Creative Solutions Ink and Middlesex Water

This unique case study shows how NJ based Creative Solutions Ink provided the Pressero system to its customer, Middlesex Water. Pressero provided the opportunity to Middlesex Water to gain greater control over brand integrity, overall print spend, and reduce both costs and waste.

Stuyvesant Press

Stuyvesant Press was founded in 1977 and occupies a state-of-the-art 15,000-square-foot facility from which it serves a number of high-profile clients.

PrintLynx

PrintLynx was founded in 1984 as an instant print and yearbook company. This full-service sheetfed printer operates with 2- and 4-color offset presses as well as digital presses from HP-Indigo and Xerox.

Mimeo.com

Mimeo was founded in 1998 by Internet entrepreneurs to address the complex business document printing needs of organizations, particularly those with mobile workers and distributed organizations. Mimeo uses the eDocBuilder variable data publishing engine that is available in Pressero.

Century Marketing Solutions

Century Marketing Solutions (CMS) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CenturyLink, the third largest telecommunications company in the U.S. as a result of its acquisition of Qwest. CMS uses the eDocBuilder variable data publishing engine that is available in Pressero.

Recipient of the InterTech Technology Award 2013

The Pressero and eDocBuilder web-to-print software solutions received the Printing Industries of America's prestigious 2013 InterTech Technology Award. Fellow award recipients include Aproove SA, Arjowiggins Creative Papers, CGS Publishing Technologies International, Heidelberg USA, HP. Eastman Kodak Company, GMG Americas, MGI Digital Graphic Technology, Scodix, and Sinapse Print Simulators,

A web-to-print system needs to be more than a list of features... it needs to actually work, to produce a return on investment, to help your business be leaner, more competitive and more profitable. We are pleased to offer you the following case studies from actual customers using Pressero on a daily basis.