Integrate your supply chain.

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2 Integrate your supply chain. Don t just automate your business. Internet technology is changing the way we buy and sell printing. Sure, you can benefit from powerful new information tools that save you time, effort and money. But, whether you re a printer or a print buyer, you will only thrive in the new economy when you connect your business systems to your business partners. The printcafe solution starts with the industry s best applications for printers and print buyers. Then we add e-commerce and integration tools to flow data from one end of the print process to the other. Our print management solutions are recognized leaders in the industry. Our e-commerce technology is the only choice that supports a full spectrum of print products, each individually configurable to a company s unique requirements. And with our printcafe PCX integration specification we are developing a framework for connecting the entire industry. Of the technology solutions available to you, only printcafe is linking the entire supply chain. Only printcafe integrates with buyers e-procurement systems on one end, the printer s management system on the other, and all the steps in between, creating The operating system for print. Make printcafe the choice for your supply chain strategy. You ll capture more than just a piece of the future. You ll get all of it.

3 Electronic print that generates more than an . buying and selling A solution for print buying doesn t solve much if all it does is help you type a specification and shoot it out over the Internet. The printcafe solution is much more. It s a website that bears your identity and is configurable to reflect the way you do business. It provides not only the tools for print buyers to specify print jobs and for estimators to quote them, but a pipeline for data to flow through the entire supply chain, upstream from the corporate procurement system all the way out to the printers production and workflow management systems and beyond.

4 Make buying easier, faster and more accurate Powerful tools that drive your process. Every company has its own unique way of buying print. And every printer has a unique style of operation. printcafe provides a full set of tools that bring the two together automatically and seamlessly. The heart of this capability is Printellect, printcafe s intelligent specification tool. It lets even novice buyers generate precise specifications on every kind of print job through a fast, adaptive Q&A process that eliminates errors and ambiguities. Then it translates these answers into industry standard electronic job descriptions and communicates them directly to the printer. Printellect even gives you smart online tools for tracking the progress of a job every step of the way. Connect your print specifications all the way the Connect your print specifications all the way to the shoptofloor. printcafe is the only print buying solution that delivers true supply chain integration because it s the only one that has printing in its DNA. printcafe technology is used by thousands of printers worldwide to run their own operations--from the customer service rep all the way to the loading dock. So the job descriptions generated through a printcafe powered website are compatible with counterpart systems inside the printer. The benefit is a faster, more accurate response. No phone calls, no faxes, no wheel spinning. Instant action, more predictable results. Printers can proceed with confidence. Everyone saves time and money. Better internal connections for buyers. print buyers.. Better internal connections for print printcafe s complete integration even extends upstream to the leading corporate procurement and planning systems such as Ariba and Oracle. In today s environment of vendor consolidation, this integration is critical. And printcafe is the only solution that connects all three: the tools to make print buying easier and more accurate, corporate buying and planning systems, and the printer s management system. It makes printcafe an essential part of an enterprise-wide supply chain strategy. shop floor.

5 For printers, better customer care and more meaningful relationships. Printing is a business of cementing customer relationships through fast, accurate service. printcafe significantly enhances service in two ways: by supporting production with a complete set of proven, industry leading management systems; and by integrating this solution seamlessly with your own branded printcafe powered website. And printcafe is the only solution that extends this integration deep into buyers back-office systems and out to your own suppliers. Which means that you have the tools in place everywhere in the supply chain to respond faster, more accurately and more efficiently to your customers needs. Only with printcafe.

6 Integrate end to end. A complete portfolio of printing solutions. Count on printcafe for leadership in print management and production technology. We automate printing plants with systems known and respected for years. Like Hagen, Logic, Programmed Solutions, AHP/Keren, Prograph and PrintSmith. And with our Proteus page make-up application for publishers and strategic partners like CreoScitex for prepress technology, we cover printing and publishing from the graphic designer to the bindery operator. We ve even taken the lead in extending printcafe integration with printcafe PCX, an integration model we re developing to connect printcafe customers with third-party infrastructure services, business-to-business solutions and media processes. An electronic extension of your company. With printcafe e-commerce, you re not doing business through another company s generic website. printcafe technology gives you the freedom to custom configure your e-commerce presence to match your capabilities and the unique needs of your customers. Your website reflects your own brand identity, your own look, your service strengths, even the terminology you use for specifying print jobs. And beneath the surface, your website translates your questions and answers into job descriptions that feed directly into the printer s shop floor and even their supplier systems for fast, accurate online quoting, production orders, project management and more. E-commerce for everything you print. With so much experience in production management technology, and with a spectrum of customers that includes some of the world s largest print buyers and printers, there s no solution that delivers as much range as printcafe. Which means that, no matter what you want to print from business cards to multi-edition magazines, we cover it. Your business will never outgrow printcafe s ability to deliver end-to-end support. Whether you re a printer or a print buyer, printcafe is the one system that delivers on the promise of e-commerce. Your business can gain real efficiencies through the speed, ease-of-use and end-to-end integration of printcafe technology.

7 For more information visit us at or call in the U.S. or in Europe. Corporate Offices printcafe Systems, Inc. Forty 24th Street Pittsburgh, PA USA PH FAX printcafe, Europe 281a St. Leonard s Road Windsor, Berkshire SL4 3DR UK PH +44 (0) FAX +44 (0) Regional Offices New York Dallas Chicago San Francisco Atlanta Boston Minneapolis In partnership with CreoScitex A world leader in the graphic arts industry, CreoScitex delivers advanced digital imaging and prepress solutions. Together, printcafe and CreoScitex integrate and automate the entire printing process from end-to-end printcafe IP Management Inc. All rights reserved printcafe logo, printcafe PCX and The operating system for print are trademarks of printcafe IP Management, inc. Ariba is a registered trademark of Ariba,Inc. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation. Certain technologies used in the printcafe system operate under a license of U.S. patent 4,839, /00