Veteran ASP (Application Solution Provider) and Yahoo! Top 50 Web site award winner, Candor Technologies has announced the launch of BizCardPrint.com in South Africa. BizCardPrint.com is a B2B service that connects companies to printers and intuitively allows users to typeset, proof and order their own business cards online with delivery the next day.
The service was borne out of the need to eliminate the current pains associated with traditional printing. Standard industry practice is to hire a design company or wait for a printer to create/typeset a company`s business cards every time new ones are required. This can be a costly process, as well as a time consuming one.
Not only do companies have to meet a minimum quota of employees who require business cards (quantity cost-effectiveness) but the design and typesetting of the cards needs to be proofed time and again to ensure accuracy. This whole process can span anywhere from two weeks to two months. Miscommunication can also lead to unnecessary errors, with the associated wasted time and expense.
Candor Technologies Managing Director, Wido Schnabel says: "Business cards have typically taken too long to produce, required too many resources and in the majority of cases were still delivered late with serious errors. BizCardPrint.com addresses all these facets and more by offering, low-volume (single card ordering), high quality cards improving turnaround times by over 600%."
BizCardPrint.com automates both the ordering and the production process. Instead of utilising high-volume offset machines, BizCardPrint.com works with printers who operate specialised low-volume, high-quality digital printing presses. Disc Express, SA`s premier Pre Press and Digital Print On Demand provider is BizCardPrint.com`s founding Print & Delivery Partner. Reinhard Marx, MD of Disc Express says,"BizCardPrint.com will facilitate a desperate niche for on-demand printing. Complemented by our legacy expertise we, in association with Candor offer a holistic click-and-mortar service."
Aimed at SME and large corporates, Candor explains that BizCardPrint.com differs from other business card ordering sites that typically offer generic design templates. Adhering to corporate identity standards, BizCardPrint.com utilises the design of a company`s existing business card with the ability for end users to typeset their details and approve the proof electronically.
Additional features of the application include automatic maintenance of system database, eliminating the need to re-enter details; support for multiple print offers allowing for various quotes on quantity and type from various vendors; automatic crop mark generation and bleed area handling.
Candor is also embarking on various `revenue-sharing` initiatives with its exclusive associate programme and business partner programme. The exclusive associate programme will be offered to high traffic portals and business-centric web sites in line with the product`s target market. Unlike other affiliate programmes, BizCardPrint.com offers return/repeat revenues. The business partner programme will be aimed at the marketing, design and advertising fraternity.
Initially servicing Germany nationally and companies that fall within Cape Town and Johannesburg`s metropolitan areas, Candor plans to rollout BizCardPrint.com to the rest of Europe and the antipodes within the next quarter.
Schnabel concludes, "The underlying factor is that the traditional print industry must come to terms with new economy demands - cost effectiveness, rapid turnaround times and increased productivity. We foresee BizCardPrint.com becoming the standard for procurement in the print industry."
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