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Does digital work? You decide.
What can you learn from looking at another organization’s success? That the challenges
they face are the same as yours. And that the success they found using the right digital
printing solution can be yours as well.
Operating expenses were escalating at Associates International, Inc. (Ai) in Wilmington,
Delaware. Payroll alone was consuming 42% of the company’s costs on top of the rising
price of production materials. It’s easy to see why Ai wanted to become more efficient and
increase their productivity to maximize their profits.
Working with Xerox, Ai mapped their workflow and value stream from start to finish—
integrating a Xerox
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iGen4
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Digital Press, Xerox
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FreeFlow Process Manager
®
and Xerox
®
FreeFlow Output Manager
®
with the partner-provided variable data printing, Web-to-
Print and MIS solutions of their existing workflow. This powerful combination virtually
eliminated the need for an employee to supervise an overnight shift—and boosted their
volume capabilities.
This integrated solution reduced Ai’s costs by 35% over three years, increased their
productivity 78% percent and reduced labor costs by 36%. Sales increased by nearly 78%,
as the wider capabilities of the iGen4 enabled Ai to take on more jobs, including ones they
wouldn’t have been able to handle previously.
Everybody’s talking about workflow. Is anyone talking about how to make the
work flow more profitably through your shop? We are. The answer is end-to-end
automation and the transformational power it brings to your business.
It’s time to remove bottlenecks.
For many years, print service providers have
been investing in software solutions to
automate print production workflows, much
of it upstream in acquisition and prepress. But
it has often led to “automation silos” where
one portion of your workflow is faster and runs
independently, but the rest of the solution is
ill-equipped to keep up.
So let’s consider a printer who has invested
in a Web storefront to allow customers to
submit jobs online, 24/7. Finding jobs is critical.
A continuing stream of them is necessary to
turn a profit in digital printing.
But it’s only part of the answer. Try to print
and finish those jobs on a lot of presses and
you’ll be facing downtime and bottlenecks.
Not so with the iGen4
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Diamond Edition.
This is a press built specifically to remove
the bottlenecks other less-automated digital
presses can throw in the way of smooth
production.
Top Five Major Production Workflow Bottlenecks
50%
49%
31%
30%
29%
0% 20% 40% 60%
Proofing and Approval
Job Estimating
Preflighting
Job Submission
Billing
Source: Production Software Investment Outlook, InfoTrends, 2011