Executive Summary

In the $90 billion U.S. market of flexible packaging it is difficult for existing printers to service the needs of customers requiring small orders.  Customers needing under 50,000 copies, are faced with prohibitive costs and lengthy deliveries.  Set-up costs and tooling for a job can cost thousands of dollars.  Printers are either turning business away or burying the costs for steady clientele in other jobs.  But the need for short run packaging is growing as companies look to increase market research and promote brand diversity.  There is also a large untapped market segment that until now has been unable to afford quality packaging and labels.

PrintQue was formed by three industry visionaries, who believe there is an opportunity to provide cost effective, quality labels and packaging in low volumes.  In the last year, digital printing presses have advanced to a point where the quality and speed make them a viable engine for low to medium volumes runs.   Flexible tooling has also recently been introduced to the industry.  These machines act as unique pieces that are not integrated.  Alone they offer only a small part of the overall PrintQue solution.  PrintQue has developed a proprietary production flow automation bridge that eliminates most of the human contact with a print job and integrates multiple digital and flexible finishing units into one continuous production line. 

The integration extends beyond the production floor.  PrintQue has developed a plug-in client application that works with the standard graphic designer software programs such as Quark, Adobe Illustrator, etc.  This application allows a designer to take their design from concept straight through to the press.

The advantages to the end customer are reduced costs from thousands to a few hundred dollars.  Increased flexibility in shapes, images and the incorporation of variable data.  Turn around times reduce from weeks to days. 

The advantage to our target customers, print shops, designers, marketing firms and service providers, is extensive.  Large printers can avoid costly set-ups for small jobs by subbing work to PrintQue.  This equates to increasing their capacity to generate revenue without investing additional capital.  This allows them to offer shorter runs to existing customers, thus expanding the services they provide.  This will also allow them to take on small customers who may someday grow into large accounts.  By utilizing the advantages of PrintQue, they gain customer serviceability without added load to their existing business.  Designers and marketing firms can now offer short runs for market testing and brand diversification without the costly set-up and tooling charges.  They also gain the advantage of rapid turn around.

PrintQue is seeking investors to implement the company into production.  For further information, please contact;

Richard Neumann, CEO                     Paul Stathocopolus, VP Development