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Agfa Graphics
Septestraat 27
B – 2640 Mortsel
Belgium
Paul Adriaensen
Press Relations Manager
Agfa Graphics
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E: press.graphics@agfa.com
AGFA GRAPHICS
Agfa Graphics Launches v3.0 of
StoreFront for Simpler Online Store
Creation and Management
Mortsel, Belgium – July 17, 2015
Agfa Graphics has just released the newest version of its cloudbased web-to-print workflow system, StoreFront 3.0, designed for
the Commercial Printing (Apogee) and Display/Signage (Asanti)
markets. Apogee and Asanti StoreFront 3.0 give printers or print
service providers (PSPs) a series of new features to promote their
service offerings to their customers and reach new markets online.
“At the moment our largest StoreFront account is a print service provider who is
running 51 B2B stores for different clientele,” said Andy Grant, Head of Software,
Agfa Graphics. “Today StoreFront serves more than 1,000,000 pages per month, a
number that very well illustrates the potential of this market."
Storefront is being used all over the world today. Regions like
Switzerland and Scandinavia are extremely active when it comes to
promoting print in a B2B environment via web-to-print.
“This new release is great for one of our automotive industry customers,” said
René M. Jørgensen, System coordinator at Kailow, Denmark. ”The store that we
built for them contains about 250 products in over 20 categories, ranging from
brochures and newsletters to stock photos and videos. The ability to group related
documents in subcategories, will make it easier for the car dealers to navigate the
store. The new animated banners allow their marketing team to highlight new
brochures or promote product videos that were recently added to the web-to-print
shop."
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One of the new StoreFront 3.0 features, is the use of animated
‘carousel banners’ and custom footer function on store pages. The
ability for shop owners to either provide information to shoppers or
Paul Adriaensen
Press Relations Manager
Agfa Graphics
promote specific products or services allows them to optimize their
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HTML5 banners are easy to set up and properly display on mobile
store for their needs and use it as a marketing tool as well. The
devices. The footer function can be used to add contact data or
payment and shipping information on store pages.
Andy Grant continued: “From the start, our StoreFront solution
was developed with automation in mind. The tight integration
with the Apogee or Asanti workflow is extremely powerful and
saves printers a lot of time because incoming orders are
automatically processed."
"With the new releases, we focus more on the business side of web-to-print,
enabling printers to create bigger, more efficient stores, operate in larger markets,
support electronic document creation and distributions and handle various
payment models and invoicing" Grant said. "Kailow’s automotive customer is an
excellent example of how StoreFront enables a commercial printer or a sign &
display producer to offer more value and services online."
StoreFront 3.0 now also supports price rounding either per item or
for the total order value and business customers with stores aimed
at international visitors have better control over international valueadded taxes (VAT). In countries where it is customary to add a
surcharge for credit card payments, such fees can now be added to
the order total.
For more information on Apogee and Asanti StoreFront please visit
http://www.apogeestorefront.com
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PRESS RELEASE
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Septestraat 27
B – 2640 Mortsel
Belgium
Paul Adriaensen
Press Relations Manager
Agfa Graphics
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About Agfa
The Agfa-Gevaert Group is one of the world's leading companies in imaging and
information technology. Agfa develops, manufactures and markets analogue and
digital systems for the printing industry (Agfa Graphics), for the healthcare sector
(Agfa Healthcare), and for specific industrial applications (Agfa Materials). Agfa is
headquartered in Mortsel, Belgium. The company is present in 40 countries and
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has agents in another 100 countries around the globe. The Agfa-Gevaert Group
achieved a turnover of 2,620 million euros in 2014.
Please visit us at www.agfa.com
About Agfa Graphics
Agfa Graphics offers integrated prepress solutions to the commercial printing
industry, the newspaper printing and publishing industry and the sign and display,
decoration and industrial inkjet printing industry. These solutions comprise
consumables, hardware, software and services for production workflow, project and
process management, cloud software and image processing.
Agfa Graphics is a worldwide leader with its computer-to-film, computer-to-plate,
digital proofing and security solutions for commercial and packaging printers.
For newspaper markets Agfa Graphics is leading supplier of automation for printed
and mobile publishing workflows.
Agfa Graphics has also developed a prominent position in the new segments of
industrial inkjet. It offers a wide range of inkjet presses and a complete assortment
of high-quality inks.
www.agfagraphics.com
Contact:
Paul Adriaensen
Agfa Graphics Press Relations Manager
tel. ++32 (0)3/444.3940
e-mail: paul.adriaensen@agfa.com
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