Digital StoreFront Markets

Digital StoreFront -- Developed Specifically to Meet the Needs of these Markets

EFI Digital StoreFront^® is developed to address the specific business processes within four main market segments of the print industry - in plants, facilities management sites, retail for pay and commercial printers.

In plants and facilities management sites are print providers who service a known or captive customer community. Retail print service providers range from reprographics quick printers to full commercial offset printers who are moving into digital production to take advantage of turnaround, small run size, and personalization products and services.

In Plant, CRD, and Captive Customer Communities

In plants or facilities management print service providers typically have an established relationship with their entire customer community. For example, a university printer’s charter is to provide print services to the entire campus community. The type or business segment that the customer community belongs to impacts how services are procured. In a legal vertical market, tracking the print spend to a particular client or matter (case) is critical, whereas a corporate in plant might operate as a companywide cost center that does little or no tracking back to individual spend.

Retail and Commercial Customer Communities

Retail print service providers have a combination of new or unknown customers who find their Web sites and a group of customers with established relationships where pricing, product selection and the look and feel of the site is customer specific. The retail printers require a flexible e-commerce platform that allows them to service both known and unknown customers from the same platform.