Online store investment made to streamline and improve print services across campus.
Loughborough University web-to-print solution Digital StoreFrontUK based Loughborough University has been able to streamline its design and print services and work towards improved control of its corporate identity across all types of printed applications due to the implementation of EFI's web-to-print solution Digital StoreFront . The introduction of a more refined workflow has resulted in reduced departmental costs, simplified online ordering and execution of jobs, resulting in increased throughput and efficiencies across all production equipment.
Loughborough is one of the UK’s leading universities, with an international reputation for research that matters, the quality of its teaching, strong links with industry, and a high achievement in sport and academic disciplines. For the past 30 years its design and print services have played a key role in the success of the university by providing departments, and on- and off-campus organisations with professional design, print, photography, video and web design services.
"We were aware that having an online store, and managing it in-house, would enable us to streamline and improve our print services across campus,” stated Helen Clarke, Business and Administration Manager. “It provides an accessible workflow for users, so after consultation with other universities and councils we chose EFI’s Digital StoreFront. We have seen a dramatic take up of the service throughout October 2012, providing an 82 per cent increase in job submissions since the software was installed. Because it is essential that a coherent and consistent visual identity is applied across all of our communications, we will be moving forward with Digital StoreFront to provide a simplified collection of document templates that our print customers can use both on and off campus, and that support our documented visual identity guidelines."
Powered by EFI Fiery® front-ends, which provide a direct link to Digital StoreFront, Loughborough University's print facilities focus on a Canon imagePress 1135 production engine with inline finishing and a Canon imagePress C7000 for colour production, with complementary wide-format printers, booklet makers, folding, binding and stitching equipment. EFI pointed out that the ability to offer such a broad range of services from a large number of sources relies on a sleek and efficient interface with users. This said the company highlights the value of Digital StoreFront in educational environments as well as within the commercial print sector.
