Octane Digital may be a newcomer to the Auckland digital printing scene, but its principals Richard Nugent and Simon Taylor between them boast 65 years of ink in their veins. Previously the owner of two large offset printing companies, Nugent brings his vast know-how on all facets of the industry to the new digital enterprise. Taylor's background in personalization, variable data, colour management, and all aspects of digital and offset printing, IT and desktop publishing software is a perfect complement.

Their experience has given the partners a valuable edge in choosing the best equipment for the new company. The workhorse is an HP Indigo 5500 seven-colour press that allows Octane Digital to provide an end-to-end digital printing solution from offset quality colour printing, including one-to-one marketing and mailing services with variable data, high capacity large format production, to professional print finishing services.

Integral to total business management is the E Pro system from Hexicom Software (Print MIS Pacific Reseller) to manage estimating and internal workflow. "After considering a multitude of systems, we opted for E Pro as the easiest and most straight forward MIS system for our budget," said Taylor. "We installed it two weeks after start up and it was up and running quoting, creating job bags and invoicing in a day.

"The creation of item libraries for commonly estimated products such as business cards, A4, A3 sheets and the like makes things easy as we are a two man band, and the ability to create quick quotes while you're busy finishing or printing is a great time saver. With digital being short run, low dollar value you can't afford to spend much time quoting. Our customers get their quotes faster and with some of our customers, first quote in gets the job. "E Pro has a raft of reports which help to see what your cash flow is, sales for the day, month, top customers. Hexicom (Print MIS Pacific Reseller) has been great to deal with, answering all our questions. Their remote support has been outstanding as well; they just log in and you can see them upgrade and make changes," Taylor added.

Andreas Henrik, President for Fasta Print (Sweden) states "Fasta Print recently Andreas Henrik, President for Fasta Print (Sweden) states "Fasta Print recently invested €1.5 million in its IT infrastructure and part of the expansion was to initiate bespoke development on our existing print estimating system which fortunately for us did not materialize. We approached Print MIS late May 2007 and signed up to testing the beta version of its new print management system prior to a general release. And what can I say 'a truly remarkable team with exceptional software that will give every other MIS supplier a higher level to aim for'.

BRENTWOOD, England: July 18, 2005. SES PRINT and Print MIS today announced that SES PRINT will deploy the E Pro print management solution. chnical requirement for their software management solution: to pull together disparate estimating, job and stock management systems into an easy-to-use unified solution.

Matthew Day, Director of SES PRINT, was careful to pick a solution that is easy to use and will expand with his developing business. "E Pro has this wonderfully simple interface that shields the user from the program's enormous functional power," said Day. "Stability, ease of use and scalability are all key requirements of a complete management solution. E Pro ticks all these boxes, and then some. It's perfect for the Printing Industry."

Day continues, "Print MIS created a fantastic package for us, representing remarkable value for money when compared to their competitors. They furnished us with first class technical support during our evaluation and really gave the impression of a dynamic company with clear vision. In my opinion, Print MIS have raised the bar and are setting new standards in Print Management."

About SES PRINT: SES PRINT is a 3rd-generation family-owned lithographic printing facility with total in-house print finishing. Its key clients are SMEs and publicly-funded organisations. SES PRINT is based in West Horndon, near Brentwood, England. It is a trading identity for South Eastern Printing & Stationery Company Ltd - a company founded by Day's grandfather, Kenneth Wright, in 1958 as South Eastern Printing Service Ltd. In an earlier career position, Day was a System Test Manager for a significant, global software development house. His role entailed systematically uncovering defects and issues with software solutions.