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Solution
Speed, functionality and versatility
HP PrintOS Site Flow is now one of HP’s new
PrintOS, a suite of tools forming a complete
cloud-based operating system.
“A major attraction of Site Flow was how easy it
is to install and implement,” Ulrich Schätzl says.
“We had it up and running in two days, and
we nd that our customers who use it are
connected and operational in three to ve
days. This is a process that often takes months,
so it’s a major improvement and shortens the
time to revenue.
“Orders are placed from customers’ websites
but it’s in the Cloud that the magic happens:
the orders are validated and routed to our site;
the customer is updated via a message;
artwork is automatically fetched and pre-
ighted; barcodes are inserted; batches are
created and ganged; production is scheduled;
JDFs are created, and imposed jobs are sent
to the presses – all without a single operator
getting involved.
“Jobs don’t have to go to our Indigo presses
and artwork doesn’t have to be sent via the
Cloud to be printed,” Ulrich Schätzl says.
“We’ve sent jobs to our CTP machine for
conventional output which is very useful,
as about 70 percent of our work is still
produced conventionally. It will make
a lot of new things possible.”
Multi-item orders are collated by the system,
barcodes are scanned to verify that all items
are present, and shipping labels and invoices
are automatically generated.
This means that an order comprising a
photo-book, some postcards, business
cards and a greetings card arrives at the
same place and goes into a single package,
ready for dispatch.
“Site Flow has leading practice built-in,
we have been able to move forward
very quickly without having to search for
‘the golden solution’,” Ulrich Schätzl says.
“Features are added regularly and we no
longer have storage or performance worries
because it’s all in the Cloud.”