Taopix, the world’s leading provider of white label personalization and photo commerce software, and Ultimate TechnoGraphics, leader in imposition and finishing automation solutions, announced the enhancement of their partnership. The revamped alliance brings to the photo print market the tools to easily build an automated workflow for a wide variety of photo products such as photo prints, photo books, and calendars.
The enhanced integration streamlines print production from order entry to print for any printed photo products including prints, books, calendars, masks, and more. The award-winning Taopix online photo personalization platform captures the unique photo orders and communicates the customer and job information to Ultimate Impostrip which automatically generates the best imposition with proper marks and layout using advanced schemes like variable frame length and photo batching
“Taopix offers an intuitive photo ordering process for end customers to easily create memories, stories, and personalized merchandise. Once ordered, it’s all about streamlining production,’’ says Julie Watson, chief executive officer of Ultimate TechnoGraphics. “Taopix removes the hurdles of photo customization and Ultimate Impostrip removes the hurdles of print production of such products. We are delighted to partner with a reference in the photo segment to provide a solid automation workflow solution.’’
Taopix is a white-label platform that empowers your business throughout the entire process of selling personalized products, from product design and tailored user journeys, right through to checkout and production. From photo prints, photo books, canvases, and calendars, to mugs, keyrings, t-shirts and other gifts, Taopix lets you create bespoke user journeys for editing & ordering the pictures, text, and layout for any type of personalized product.
“The variety of photo products brings its share of print challenges to printers,’’ shared James Gray, chief executive officer of Taopix. “By adding the advanced automation and scalability of Ultimate Impostrip, we are confident our customers will increase their profits on high-volumes of personalized photo products.’’
Ultimate Impostrip optimizes every aspect of the prepress imposition workflow with tools that are easy-to-use yet extremely versatile. It automates photo print production on digital press and finishing equipment, reduces waste considerably, and keeps track of every individual piece. It translates information gathered from upstream components like Taopix and uses production logic to generate batch tickets with all the asset references and information required and creates print-ready files on the fly.
To showcase the integration of their software solutions, Taopix and Ultimate TechnoGraphics will be hosting a collaborative webinar on Thursday, 25 June at 10 AM. This one-hour session will show how commercial printers, professional photo labs, and photo gifts retailers can increase their productivity and profitability by combining the two prepress software solutions. To register, visit Taopix or Ultimate Technographics.
