The AFPress Story

AFPress was born of necessity and frustration. Isn't that the way most businesses and inventions start? Pressed with the challenge of a million dollars of printed marketing and sales materials and collateral inventory for a single business unit the team of print and IT professionals at American Fidelity felt there must be a better way. It was 2003. Digital presses were first generation and primitive. Digital archiving software was meant for simple files and low quality. It was unreliable and unpredictable. The print industry was losing steam. Plants in companies were being outsourced and commercial plants were closing by the thousands. The demand for high quality, rapid, low volume runs was being predicted by all the industry pundits, but the cost was prohibitive and reliability was a joke. None of this stopped the team of innovators and inventors. There must be a better way.

The AFPress team provides phenomenal customer service.They not only saved one SBU substantial dollars in the first year of on demand press operations, they did so while providing great customer service AND improved quality of end product. The total AFA company expense savings were 50% greater than the specific SBU which is an absolutely outstanding accomplishment! (Measured by print allocations year to year and includes external print for this one strategic business unit). Dave Carpenter, Office of the Chair, Senior Executive AFA.

Alongside AFA genius and ingenuity our methods provided an enablement for these savings to become annualized and extend into all business units and other companies. Consider the impact on profitability of $1.3mm a year of reduced expense over a six year period. More millions were gained. But just consider this one hard dollar fact of $7.8mm added profit.

Get Cost efficient, time effective digital press

Over the ensuing years, we found many better ways for different business clients to provide for your digital printing and archiving needs in a cost efficient and smooth workflow manner with online access and status.

• There are ways to digitally archive and sustain high quality every time a file is printed. We have them for you. Working with software providers, we've made better ways alongside them and integrated solutions with constant feature upgrades.
• There are ways to print press quality on digital machines at moderate, competitive costs. Working again with software and press providers, we've found processes that ensure consistency and do them every day. Each press run of 5,10,20,40,100,1000 or more is consistently matching the first one.
• There are ways to provide these services 24 hours a day through online systems that integrate all the way from order to press to finishing to distribution to the final recipient. There are ways to see order status as it moves through the phases and get email notifications along the way. We provide this service every day.
• There are ways to review order cycles for sales reps and branches and manage better with that information, and we provide that information to our clients.
• There are ways to prepress files rapidly and dynamically with online proofing for speed and increased communication with the commercial print provider and we provide that service every day.
• There are ways to go from file creation to press to finished to shipped in 48-72 hours instead of weeks and we provide that service on some 200-400 orders a day every day.
• There are ways to ensure absolute segregation of clients so no other client is aware of your activities and files are locked down secured for corporate, legal, and regulatory compliance and we provide that service on some 7000 plus files every day.
• There are ways to have every page, postcard, or letter print with a different variable or each order to be versioned different for customization in rapid and predictable and beautiful output. We provide that service every day for thousands of iterations for our clients.
• There are ways to reduce your press costs by 20-40% and reduce hours of time spent by your staff through more efficient and effective workflows. The result is improved profitability through reduced expense. We do this for millions of dollars of cost reduction for our clients. We provide this every day.
• There are ways to support ordering from across the United States and distribute direct from press to point of need and we do it every day for our clients.

Reduce Costs

The team at AFPress prides itself in finding better and better ways. Our commitment is to discover our client's expectation, provide a solution that fits, and do that over and over and over. The cumulative value to you in having more time to work on the design and offer and content and customers to whom you sell is inestimable. The cumulative value of savings on each order by only ordering what you need when you need it eliminates warehousing and printing excess and destroying $$$$ of materials that lose validity. Waste can be 50-60% of print costs in many companies with whom we work.

Accelerate Business Results

There must be a better way to get press runs of high quality with high variability and high security and consistency and reduce costs. In this digital age of high technology there must be a better way to accelerate the results of your business in these areas. There is a better way. AFPress is ready to show you how.

Please contact us for more information on how to take advantage of our services and optimize your profits. There is no reason to spend another day spending money where it is not necessary.