Easing Into E-commerce

Another site, printCafe.com, also helps integrate and automate printing. Clients can pick a printer and spec every aspect of a job from prepress to fulfillment. Printers can receive orders and quote prices. The site tracks job status in real time.

These dotcom services all have their own payment plans: Collabria charges a licensing fee to the print provider; Noosh has a service fee for the buyer and a transaction fee for each completed job for the printer; Impresse asks for a one percent commission from the printer for all completed jobs. What works best for you obviously depends on how useful the system proves to be.