The Manchester-based repro house, which specialises in providing a full flexographic service to packaging printers, placed an order for the full truePAK system within 48 hours of an on-site demonstration given to its technical team.

According to PPP, it began implementing the truePAK system five days later and had completely discarded its previous MIS within a month.

Chairman Craig Swift said: "I guess the timescale we gave ourselves was a bit scary, especially when you consider that an ordinary MIS system generally takes months to implement.

"We're now looking to interface the software with our advertising company, Mamuchi, and our photographic company, Studio Alexander, in addition to customer sites and the pre-press software we operate, such as ArtPro."

Out of the Box said that part of the success of its truePAK MIS was due to the degree of information held within a job ticket and its use of XML/JDF to retrieve and transfer this data to pre-press systems such as Nexus and Prinergy, which are able to process any field within the truePAK job.

Out of the Box managing director Wayne Hawksworth said: "The whole ethos behind truePAK was to provide comprehensive MIS facilities within a 'repro' framework in which digital artwork flows seamlessly to any pre-press system that can accept files or XML data.

"This ability to fully integrate two separate areas – MIS and pre-press production – has proved to be a major advantage to customers."

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