Printable.com provides SaaS and desktop oriented Web to Print and VDP company started in 2000. Printable is a heavyweight, they appear to be oriented to commercial printers and in-house printers of large corporations.
Price
Minimum set-up fee is $15,000 and goes upward of $300,000. Monthly pricing is "typically" $1,000/month for hosting fees.
Features
Printable's platform is very powerful, offering a huge number of benefits,
- White box/fully skinnable platform
- Multiple portals per account, i.e. online catalog for general public, another for specific corporate client branded as that clients in-house ordering system.
- JDF Job Ticketing output
- PDF based workflow
- Imposition/Ganging options for output.
- Store reorders/Document management
- Online designer allowing customers to customize templates
- Collaborative proof/design markup tool
- VDP Templates are PDF based, fields & objects are tagged and then uploaded to the server. Theoretically any program that can output PDF can be used to create a template however, plugins are available for Acrobat Pro, QuarkXPress, Adobe PageMaker, InDesign, Illustrator. PDF's exported from those programs with the plug in keep the tagged information.
- Billing
- Customer analysis
- Advanced, highly configurable control of job approval for the customer, i.e. a manager requires personal approval of orders or allow specific groups to order via Credit Card and/or Purchase Order.
- Direct marketing lists are integrated and available for purchase.
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"...AccuData, the world’s largest provider of multi-source, compiled data and database marketing solutions, offers a broad range of highly customized lists."
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Source
External Links Printable Accudata