CIP4 Announces 2010 CIPPI Award Winners for JDF Implementation
JP Graphics, Inc., Appleton, WI
Commercial Printer
• Founded in 1969
• 25 employees
• $4.1 million in sales
• The company grew aggressively, but was hampered by isolated workflow steps and manual communications between departments
Objectives
• Find an alternative to calculating estimates by hand
• Integrate all Departments and eliminate the re-entering of data 5-7 times
• Improve data accuracy
• Improve response time to customer
• Establish automated JDF link to Prepress
• Establish automated JMF link back to MISDetails
• Expand sales territory without additional sales reps
• Offer a wide array of printed products online with accurate estimation (no price listing)
• Develop a solution for estimating the massive number of jobs from brokers
• Integrate web-to-print with MIS
• Lower ordering costs, making smaller online orders viable (current admin costs are higher than order)
“The biggest draw for going online was the number of estimates that brokers would request, and the low percentage of these estimates that would actually turn into jobs. The traditional method of estimating wastes too much time, meaning there was minimal or no benefit in profit.”