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Flowman Virtual Prepress SaaS at GTC Print AB

Date 08/11/2008

"This solution improves our customer service and further automates prepress production" says GTC Print Managing Director Marcus Rehnström. "Our customers can now work whenever it is suitable for their schedule: the 24x7 automated online customer service receives orders and validates attached files, like pages and mailing lists".

The solution includes e-business features like extranet for receiving and processing orders integrated with receiving files, validating and remote soft proofing. Features also include receiving and validating mail data (addresses) for subscription based titles. All modern prepress features like ink optimizing, RGB workflow and ink key presetting calculations are standard as well. Production tracking and management, including reporting tools such as monthly waste reports, are also integrated into the overall solution.

The solution will be provided as Software as a Service (SaaS), where the software and services are available over the Internet with no on-site installation required. Agreement includes 24x7 support.

GTC Print Ab is located In Lulea, Sweden. The company was established in 1878 and is one of the leading print service providers in northern Sweden. It provides magazines, books, brochures and other printed matter with one HeatSet web press and several sheet fed presses.

Flowman Oy is a Finnish high-tech company dedicated to streamlining business processes in the print media industry. The company has successfully combined Finnish industry automation and software competence with its pre-press production background. Flowman's aim is to bring best practices from different industry sectors to the print media industry, enabling a new way to think business processes. Flowman has its headquarters in Oulu, Finland, and operations in Sweden and the UK.

 

Further information: 

Flowman Oy
Business Development Director
Pekka Hämäläinen
email pekka.hamalainen@flowman.fi
Tel +358 44 514 62 22 

GTC Print Ab
Managing Director
Marcus Rehnström
Email marcus.rehstrom@gtc.se
Tel +46 920 20 33 12

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