Printcafe Systems Inc. acquires Print Order Composer.
PrintCafe Systems Inc. agreed today to acquire Print Order Composer and other assets of Strings Inc. The key employees of Strings Inc. will join PrintCafe Systems to help integrate Print Order Composer technology into PrintCafe developed e-commerce solutions.
About Strings Inc. (www.strings.net)
Strings Inc. was formed in August 1997 to help the commercial printers expand their services, and increase efficiency through use of the Internet. Strings Inc.'s Print Order Composer is used by print buyers to quickly compose, approve and order business documents, which are subsequently sent to their commercial printers in the form of press-ready PDF files.
About printCafe (www.printcafe.com)
printCafe, Inc. was created in early 2000 through the combined initiatives of Prograph, a leading provider of print management and publishing software, and CreoScitex, a division of Creo Products, Inc., a world leader in solutions for the graphic arts industry. printCafe's approach integrates the most widely used print management systems with a powerful e-commerce engine enabling users to specify virtually any type of print project, obtain estimates, manage B2B transactions, monitor ERP information, set up all stages of the production process, track the status of a project in real time, manage invoicing, and report on a broad range of performance summaries and analyses. Services and applications are designed for a wide range of print projects from complex magazines and books to medium-to-small projects such as collateral materials and business cards. printCafe solutions are installed in or hosted for over 7500 print buyers and printing facilities worldwide, including 19 of the 25 largest printers in the United States, and 48 Fortune 1000 companies. printCafe has formed strategic alliances with Creo Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: CREO; TSE: CRE), The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HWP), and A.T. Kearney, an EDS Company (NYSE: EDS), and is a certified trading partner in Ariba, Inc.'s Ariba ReadyTM supplier network.