Monday, February 27, 2012

WEB WATCH.

WhatTheyThink, a division of City Information Services, has launched a new Web site for the printing and graphic arts industry at www.whattheythink.com. The company surveys over 60,000 print buyers annually and reports the findings on its Web site ... VistaPrint.com, Waltham and Marlborough, Mass., has announced a partnership with Be Free Inc., a performance marketing company. VistaPrint.com's affiliate marketing program, powered by Be Free, will boost brand awareness and sales for its small business printing services ... PaperX.com has launched 1Face, an individually tailored package of Internet services designed to provide paper, pulp, and board manufacturers with their own e-commerce capability ... Paperhub and printCafe, Pittsburgh, announced their intent to coordinate their XML product offerings to enable paper fulfillment integration across the printing and publishing supply chain ... PaperExchange.com Inc. and OzePrint.com have announced a strategic agreement that enables OzePrint to extend its service offerings to customers. Under the terms of the agreement, print industry professionals who buy printing services through OzePrint.com will be able to access the PaperExchange Web site to procure paper ... Httprint.com Inc. has formed an alliance with The Stock Market Photo Agency. Httprint customers will be directed to the stockmarketphoto.com link via httprint's Industry Resource Center ... Mimeo.com and Eletter have formed a business alliance in which each company will feature the other company's complementary service as a preferred partner for customers. Mimeo.com customers will be able to link directly to the Eletter service to send their small-volume mailings. Customers of Eletter will be able to take advantage of Mimeo.com's business document production and expedited delivery services. Also, Mimeo.com and Corbis Corp. have announced a strategic alliance in which Mimeo.com will be the preferred online printing solution for the Corbis BizPresenter site, an online image resource ... GetMeSales. com launched a service that complies specific data from print buyers. The GetMeSales.com database reportedly contains over 12,000 profiles on print buyers, including the type of print services outsourced, annual spending, and level of satisfaction with their current vendors ... In August, Messe Dusseldorf North America was named the exclusive North American representative for TRhubnet. com. This site is an Internet portal designed specifically for the international plastics, printing, and packaging industries and presents a starting point for finding relevant business information for these industries ... The Splicing Business Unit of Adhesives Research Inc., Glen Rock, Pa., has launched its new e-commerce system on its corporate Web site at www.adhesivesresearch.com ... The RGF Environmental Group introduced its business-to-business Web site at www.rgf.com. Special features of RGF's site include the "Enviro-Geek" and a "Beat the Geek" environmental trivia contest ... PrintNation.com announced an agreement with PIP Printing that will bring the domestic and international PIP Printing franchisees together in a private business exchange, allowing them to purchase operating supplies online. As part of the agreement, PrintNation.com and PIP Printing will jointly develop an exclusive online storefront accessible through PIPNet.com, PIP Printing's intranet, that will offer franchisees direct links to PrintNation.com's printing store at www.printnation.com ... Blueprint Online.com announced its 4.0 version program, a Web-based technology to enhance the way users manage the distribution, viewing, and acquisition of project drawings and technical documents. With the 4.0 version program, design/construction project plans are posted online in a TIFF Group 4 format to preserve their integrity and to minimize file size ... Planetprint.com successfully implemented the Chuckwalla system as a component of its e-commerce supply-chain model. Planetprint.com is using Chuckwalla as its standard platform for managing the increasing amount of media content that is created and leveraged by planetprint customers online ... Digital Art Exchange Inc., Boston, and the Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications Association (DDAP) announced the addition of the DDAP Digital Ad Forum to the PrintPlanet. com eCommunities for the graphic arts industry. The DDAP Digital Ad forum will be the official digital advertising eCommunity on Print-Planet.com ... Collabria Inc. and Pageflex Inc. announced that Collabria has licensed Pageflex Mpower for use in the Collabria PrintCommerce service. Pageflex Mpower enables PrintCommerce users to create and produce customized, sophisticated marketing documents from a Web browser for one-to-one marketing communications delivered in print or PDF ... Artwaxer, a manufacturer of repositionable adhesives systems, announced a new online purchasing service for its customers at www.artwaxer.com.

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