Putting Your In-plant Online

Selecting the right Web-to-print system for your in-plant requires you to ask yourself some questions about the workflow needs of your shop. In a recent article in Ricoh's Production Print News, Greg Cholmondeley, In-Plant Segment Marketing Manager for Ricoh Americas, offers a few questions for managers to consider:• Do you want your Web-to-print solution to handle your production workflow or to integrate into an existing management system?

• Do you need to manage hard copy, Web-submitted digital and manually submitted jobs? Do you also need to manage transactional data center work?

• Are you managing one print shop or several? If several, then how do you want them to be connected and coordinated?

• Do you want the system to provide ad-hoc PDF conversion? Automated job pricing? Automated client notification? Approvals handling?

• What kind of scanning, makeready, impositioning and other prepress work do you expect to do?

• Do you expect to maintain libraries of print-on-demand documents? Do you expect to repurpose as well as reprint them?

Read the full story at www.ricohinplant.com.