Global Gateway allows Imprint users to trade with customers and suppliers in a range of different formats.

Links already supported include Papinet Expresso, MAP Merchant Group, Asda Wal-Mart, Tesco, Mayr-Melnhof and Iggesund.

Imprint users already using the system include a large packaging print group and a label printer.

It uses unique First B2B technology to simplify the process of ensuring information is translated into the appropriate format for each party, which the firm claims make it simple and affordable to add extra formats and to work in a less prescriptive way than other electronic trading systems.

The firms claimed that by eliminating manual document processing transaction costs can be slashed.

Story by Barney Cox