Avanti - 9/2/2010

Avanti CRM provides Central Reproductions with Actionable Insight into Critical Customer Information

Avanti Computer Systems Limited, a leading provider of Print MIS and Web-to-Print solutions, today announced that Central Reproductions, a full 
services commercial print provider in Toronto, has implemented Avanti CRM to provide a more streamlined and automated approach to the 
company’s management of sales, marketing and customer information.

Central Reproductions, (Central) has been in business for 28 years. Central has recently completed a million dollar investment in expanding their 
location and purchasing new equipment to better service their growing business. Their print shop now incorporates three buildings under one roof
(55 000 sq ft.). Central has been an Avanti customer for over twenty years, working with Avanti’s Print MIS and production modules. With the 
introduction of Avanti CRM, Central is now achieving greater internal efficiencies and the ability to better monitor and react to changes in c
customer behavior.

“It’s all about the customer! Avanti CRM provides all Central staff with one screen where they can view all of the real-time information regarding a
 customer, significantly enhancing customer service and response time,” agreed Doug Snow and Ward Spencer, owners of Central 
Reproductions. “Avanti CRM provides our CSR’s and sales team with ‘information at their fingertips’ such as instant access to customer quotes,
important notes and job information, invoices and customer history to more effectively handle customer inquiries,” added Spencer.

Attracting new customers and sales personnel is a priority for Central’s 2010 business strategy as the company continues to grow despite the 
tough economy. Avanti CRM technology will give Central’s CSR’s the ability to do more in less time and focus on customer-centric activities that 
provide tangible results. Campaign management enables Central’s marketing team to send out more targeted campaigns to their customers and 
prospects while easily tracking revenue and profitability per campaign, production costs and total marketing ROI. In the past, this has proven to 
be difficult and very time consuming without an automated solution.

We are excited to be working with such a forward thinking organization like Central. Not only are they modernizing their equipment and embracing 
new technologies to realize efficiencies, but they are also introducing new tools that help their team exceed customers’ expectations,” says
Patrick Bolan, CEO of Avanti. “We look forward to continuing to grow our relationship and supporting Central in their upcoming endeavors.”

The next phase of their deployment includes integrating Avanti CRM with Microsoft Outlook Exchange. This will enable the sales team and
business to synchronize all their tasks, notes and activities from Outlook to Avanti CRM automatically and share important customer information 
between departments.

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Avanti - 6/30/2010

Avanti Launches Version 12 with Enhanced Print Shop Intelligence

Avanti Version 12 Print MIS features greater integration, automation and Business Intelligence capabilities

Avanti Computer Systems Limited, a leading provider of Print MIS and Web-to-Print solutions, today 
announced the launch of Version 12 of its Graphic Arts Management System. Version 12 builds on previous 
versions of Avanti’s core Print MIS and incorporates new capabilities, providing customers with enhanced 
print shop intelligence.

“Everyone from customer service to sales is psyched about the new functionality of the Avanti Version 12 
release,” said Dave Zamorski, COO of Associates International, Inc.  “The reduced time to create estimates 
and the flexibility of integrating seamlessly into our workflow allows us to maintain our lights out automation 
on the presses,” Zamorski added.

“We are very excited to launch Version 12 which adds powerful insight into customer behavior, enabling 
print providers to better understand and re-act more quickly to customer needs,” said Patrick Bolan, 
President and CEO of Avanti. “With more integration and automation capabilities, Version 12 will give our 
customers the opportunity to reduce costs and more efficiently process jobs.  Enhancements to eAccess, 
our Web-to-Print offering, will help our customers remain competitive and will help generate new sources of 
revenue.”

Version 12 also provides new functionality enhancements to Avanti’s Finite Capacity Scheduling and 
Purchasing and Inventory Management modules, such as:

·         JDF-based job status updates can now automatically update milestones in Avanti’s Finite Capacity 
Scheduling module,
·         Avanti’s Purchasing and Inventory Management application now interfaces with XPEDX, automating 
the web submission process of purchase orders. 

In addition, many user requested enhancements have been added to Avanti’s Customer Relationship 
Management (CRM) and eDashboard Business Intelligence modules. Selected enhancements include:

·         Aggregation and reporting of customer orders, quotes, print job status and other important shop 
information which can be tracked in Avanti eDashboards through a simple, easy-to-use GUI,
·         New business generation and lead tracking capabilities in CRM,
·         Microsoft Outlook integration within CRM including automatic synchronization of emails, contacts, tasks 
and appointments bi-directionally. 

Early feedback on Avanti’s CRM/Microsoft Outlook integration has been very positive both from Avanti 
customers and analysts. Avanti won the “Best of Show” award in the Print MIS/ERP category at the On 
Demand 2010 Conference and Expo.

“As an early adopter of Avanti's Version 12, we are quickly realizing the advantages of the new automation 
and integration features in the latest version,” says Chris Campbell, VP of Operations at PacBlue Digital 
Imaging. “Our sales team now has quick and easy access to real-time information about all their opportunities 
and active jobs in the system. Management utilizes the CRM to quickly create ad-hoc operational and 
financial reports that help us keep a finger on the pulse of our operations quickly and easily.”

Another important addition to Version 12 is the bi-directional integration of Avanti Print MIS with Printable 
Technology’s® Web-to-Print application. This further automates print shop workflows and provides 
customers with the ability to manage and track projects remotely at anytime and from anyplace. Other leading 
third part integrations to be included in Version 12 are NowDocs, XMPie and Heidelberg Prinect.

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Avanti - 6/22/2010

Avanti and Printable Technologies Announce Partnership

Avanti Computer Systems Limited, a leading provider of Print MIS and Web-to-Print solutions, today 
announced a new integration with Printable Technologies® Inc., a premier provider of Web-to-Print and 
marketing personalization solutions. Avanti’s Print MIS is now integrated with Printable’s MarcomCentral®
ideal for creating, printing and managing the delivery of static, versioned and variable data pieces.

“We are pleased to offer this new integration with Avanti,” said Coleman Kane, CEO and President at 
Printable Technologies. “Printable remains committed to expanding our partner network in order to achieve
best in class workflows. MarcomCentral customers will now have access to Avanti’s JDF-certified, open 
architecture Print MIS which will better manage and track important customer data and provide more 
accurate reporting functionality.”

The integration of these two powerful technologies will provide print shops with a zerotouch work environment 
rom job creation and submission, right through to delivery. This will reduce costs and inefficiencies and 
increase customer satisfaction by reducing turnaround time.

“As the Web-to-Print market continues to grow, it is important for Avanti to partner with a market leading 
technology such as MarcomCentral®,” said Patrick Bolan, President of Avanti. “Printers are looking for very 
tight integration between their customer-facing Web-to-Print portals and their back-end production 
environments as they strive to drive down the cost of doing business. This is achieved by eliminating the 
re-entry of data as a job makes its way through the shop.”

The integration of Avanti and Printable will bring our shop up to the next level of automation,” said Blake 
Leduc, President of Duke Printing. “We can now offer our customers the ability to order, proof and process 
their print projects quickly and from any location as well as track job status throughout the entire process. 
This tight integration will save us 10-15 minutes per job - which doesn’t sound like much until you multiply
that time savings across the hundreds of jobs we receive over the Web.”

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Avanti - 2/17/2010

Avanti’s Print MIS Software Joins the HP SmartStream Portfolio

Bringing the benefits of highly automated workflows into reach for thousands of HP Indigo users, Avanti 
Computer Systems Limited today announced that it has joined the HP Graphics Solutions Partner program 
and has developed with HP an interface to integrate Avanti’s award-winning Print MIS software with the HP
SmartStream workflow portfolio.  Avanti is the only provider of MIS software in the North American market to 
offer this level of connectivity with HP SmartStream.

“Being able to deliver on the customer’s demand for tighter turnaround times and for substantial cost-cutting has 
become a matter of survival for print providers,” said Riley McNulty, a Research Manager at IDC. “An 
automated system such as Avanti’s is one effective way to accomplish it.”

With Avanti, virtually all facets of the print shop, such as job submission, printing, finishing and business 
management functions like estimating, purchasing and job tracking, are now automated.  Printers can 
significantly reduce costs throughout the print production process by eliminating points at which human 
intervention is typically required. 

“The value of HP’s digital printing solutions goes beyond the press to encompass end-to-end workflows that 
help our customers increase productivity and reduce operating costs,” said Alon Bar-Shany, vice president 
and general manager, Indigo division, HP. “Together, HP and Avanti are helping customers become more 
competitive in the current market by streamlining business management functions and speeding time from job
start to completion.” 

Avanti’s modular print-MIS system integrates with the HP SmartStream Production Pro Print Server.  
Using JDF/JMF, data can be transferred bi-directionally between Avanti Print MIS and HP SmartStream 
print servers in real time to update job and device status.  

“Now HP Indigo users can get even more productivity from their SmartStream investment,” said Stephen 
McWilliam, executive vice president, Avanti Computer Systems Limited.  “After in-depth testing of the 
integration, they can be certain that Avanti software will work seamlessly with their current workflows.”

Avanti’s Print MIS and HP’s SmartStream systems are based on open standards for interoperability, including 
JDF, demonstrating their commitment to provide print shops the ability to choose the right processes for their 
environment.

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Avanti - 12/22/2009

Avanti Celebrates 25 years in Business

Cajun-style party includes Dixieland band and jambalaya

Avanti Computer Systems Limited celebrated their 25th anniversary in style, inviting customers, friends and 
family to visit them in their new offices. The theme of the party was Cajun as they also begin to ramp up for 
their next User Conference which will take place in New Orleans in March 2010.

Avanti got its start back in 1984, right around the time of the introduction of the IBM PC and Microsoft’s DOS 
operating system; two technologies that revolutionized the computing industry.  The origins of Avanti were all 
the result of a conversation between Avanti’s founder, Dr. Richard Wallin, and one of his close friends who 
happened to work at a printing company. The friend was complaining about how difficult a process it was to 
put together accurate, consistent estimates for print jobs. Surely, this was something these new “personal 
computers” could help with!

Requirements were scoped out on the back of a napkin and the original code was programmed at Dr. Wallin’s 
dining room table on a PC that IBM had lent to Dr. Wallin as part of IBM’s program to get applications up and 
running on their new platform. The original version of Avanti’s software literally ran on a PC with two 5 ¼ floppy 
drives - the entire application running off of one floppy disk and all the data stored on the other floppy (with a 
capacity of 360K!).

Fast forward 25 years and a lot has changed at Avanti. While Avanti remains completely focused on software 
for the printing industry, Avanti’s product now goes well beyond the original litho estimating system. Avanti 
software now has over 1.5 million lines of code, and includes over 35 modules and over 20 JDF integrations 
into 3rd party applications and equipment.

“It’s the perfect time for a party” says Patrick Bolan, Avanti’s President and CEO. “Renovations are now 
complete on our new offices; our 25th year in business was another very successful one for us and, with the 
Avanti User Conference coming up in New Orleans, it was very easy to pick the theme for the party”.

Dr. Wallin is now enjoying retirement, after a successful transition of the business to three new owners who 
came on the scene 5 years ago; Patrick Bolan, Stephen McWilliam and Peter Funnell. All three are actively 
involved in the day-to-day running of the business and have seen the company more than double in size in 
that time. The four of them took some time this summer to celebrate the 25th anniversary on Dr. Wallin’s 
sailboat, spending a great day sailing on Lake Ontario.

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Avanti - 9/4/2009

Avanti Leverages Print 09 to Show Real World Benefits of Automation

It’s all about driving costs out of your business.

Celebrating its 25th Anniversary, Avanti Computer Systems Limited, a leading provider of JDF-Certified Print 
MIS and Web-to-Print solutions to the graphic communications industry, will use the backdrop of Print’09 to 
deliver a series of presentations that will highlight how Print Shops are driving down the cost of doing business. 

Scheduled demonstrations include:
·         Microsoft Outlook Integration: Avanti will be demonstrating their ability to automatically synchronize all 
contacts, tasks, notes, calendar and email bi-directionally between Microsoft Exchange Server and Avanti 
CRM. A few of the benefits: 

-    Sales reps, often working remotely, can always remain in sync with the most current information about 
their customers and their customer’s jobs. 

-    CSR’s have all the information regarding a customer on one screen including full access to all Outlook 
correspondence.

·         “Lights Out” Printing: Through a powerful combination of Web to Print technology and Prepress, Press 
and Finishing automation, Avanti delivers “Lights out” Printing. Learn how your print shop’s workflow can be 
streamlined and how costs can be driven out of your business.

·         Direct Mail Management: Integrated mailing module ties together Direct Mail Estimating, Postage 
Accounting and Inventory, Shipping, Billing and Reporting helping Print Shops evolve from Print Service 
Providers to Marketing Service Providers and become a ‘one-stop-shop’ for the Value-added Services 
customers are demanding such as Direct Mail Management, Fulfillment, and Creative Services.

·         Kodak Prinergy Business Link:  Demonstrating Avanti’s JDF integration into Kodak’s Prinergy 
Workflow as part of its entire JDF-certified Print MIS solution. Avanti acts as the information hub of the 
Print Shop, sending and receiving information to Prepress, Press and Finishing equipment.  

·         Best Practices in Automation: Associates Graphic Services’ COO David Zamorski walks people 
through AGS’s success in integrating their multi-vendor environment. AGS’s investment in automation has 
resulted in productivity gains that have AGS generating revenue per employee 52% above the industry 
average.

Avanti’s modular software is broken down into four components:  

·         Production including estimating for digital, traditional offset and mail, job ticketing, scheduling, 
inventory management, fulfillment, mailing, purchasing, shipping, and invoicing.  

·         Web-to-Print provides full eCommerce, POD job submission, catalogs, variable data, soft proofing, and 
fulfillment.  

·         3rd Party Integration: Supporting open standards such as JDF and XML, Avanti provides seamless 
integration to over 20 best-in-class software applications and Direct Machine interface (DMI) to equipment 
in both the press room and the bindery. 

·         Business Intelligence featuring Executive dashboards, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), 
triggers and alerts, and reporting.

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Avanti - 3/31/2009

Avanti launches Direct Mail Management at ON DEMAND 2009

Avanti Computer Systems Limited, a leading provider of JDF-Certified Print MIS solutions to the graphic 
communications industry, will use the backdrop of On Demand to launch its new Direct Mail Management 
System. As an extension of Avanti’s Print MIS System, the Direct Mail Management module provides an 
ntegrated mailing solution that ties together Direct Mail Estimating, Postage Accounting and Inventory, 
Web-to-Print Integration, Shipping, Billing and Reporting. 

Now print shops are able to manage all lines of business and their entire operation with one application 
including Print Production, Marketing Services, Fulfillment, Mailing, Billing, CRM and Shipping.

“Print shops are looking for ways to expand their Value-Added Services as they transition from Print Service 
Provider to a Marketing Services Provider.” Says Patrick Bolan, Avanti’s President and CEO. “Adding Direct 
Mail Management to Avanti Print MIS portfolio helps them become a ‘one-stop shop’ with the integrated 
services their customers are demanding.”

Highlights include:

·         Direct Mail Estimating: Fast accurate estimating of all elements of a project including postage, 
data services, drop and packages.

·         Postage Accounting: Deposit Management and Reconciliation of each client’s postage activity, 
capturing and reporting actual usage including mail.dat imports to track actual postage used for each job.

·         Postage Inventory Management for all Types of Postage: Stamps, Permits, Franked and Metered.

·         Web-to-Print Integration: Provide full online access for the Print Shop’s customers to postage 
summaries, replenishing of customer’s postage account, credit card processing, file and job submission.

·         Shipping: Plan, manage and track multiple drops including items to be part of the drop, quantities 
within each drop, drop locations and the mandatory drop completion dates.

·         Billing/Accounting: Manage refunds, overages, and available funds for timely accurate Invoicing.

·         On Demand Management Reporting: Open/Closed Drop Shipments, Client-Level Deposits vs. Usage 
Summaries, Postage Inventory.

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Avanti - 10/21/2008

Avanti’s Print MIS receives JDF Certification

TORONTO, October 21, 2008 – Avanti Computer Systems Limited, a leading provider of Print MIS solutions to 
the graphic communications industry, today announced that their core product has been JDF certified by the 
CIP4 Organization (International Cooperation for the Integration of the Processes in Prepress, Press and 
Postpress Organization) 

The Avanti Print MIS software has passed CIP4’s stringent Job Definition Format (JDF) testing by PIA/GATF 
(Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation), the official certification body for CIP4. 
Having passed these rigorous standards for JDF product certification, Avanti’s Print MIS is now certified to 
create and accept updated job details as the job is running, via JDF/JMF (Job Messaging Format).  

Avanti’s award winning JDF framework gives print shops the ability to send automated JDF job instructions 
directly to the prepress department; and subsequently, to the digital and litho presses as well as finishing 
equipment.  Upon completion, the job costing and accounting information is automatically passed back to 
Avanti using JMF messaging. This saves time and eliminates the risk of data entry errors. 

“By using JDF certified solutions, print providers can be confident that their entire workflow will run smoothly from 
Prepress to Press and onto Postpress.  Avanti continues to be a leading supporter of JDF and we are pleased 
to have them participate in our initiative,” says Dr. Mark Bohan, Vice President, Research and Technology, 
PIA/GATF.

Automate the Unbillable
“Avanti is proud to receive the JDF certification for our Print MIS,” says Patrick Bolan, Avanti’s President & 
CEO. “This achievement is part of our vision to provide Print Shops with seamless integration of the prepress, 
press and finishing departments. All printers are looking for ways to eliminate touchpoints in the workflow that 
will reduce turnaround times and decrease unbillable costs associated with a job. Avanti continues to be 
committed to JDF and CIP4 and we are very pleased our efforts have resulted in this certification.”

Bolan adds, “Why is this certification important? Avanti spent a lot of time and money to achieve this certification 
so that customers have a ‘Quality Assurance stamp’ to ensure that the different applications they count on to 
run their shop, can work together. We aren’t just talking about integration; we’re delivering on the promise.”

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Avanti - 11/9/2006

Avanti Shows Off New "Look and Feel" at Print World 2006

TORONTO, Ont. – Avanti Computer Systems is proud to announce the release of the latest version of its 
Business Management Software for Commercial Printers and In-plant facilities.

A few highlighted features and enhancements that will be demonstrated at Print World 2006 in Toronto include:

·         CRM (Customer Relationship Management) module: Completely integrated with all Avanti modules, Avanti 
CRM includes full Contact Management functionality, Sales Forecasting and Marketing Campaign Management 
capabilities
·         Avanti eDashboard: Delivers a graphical view and real-time status Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) 
impacting customer service, financials, operations and sales and marketing – all with powerful filters and online
analytical capabilities 
·         Triggers and Alerts: Get immediate email notification of events or status changes impacting a job, 24 
hours a day, 7 days a week.

“In this world of short runs and on demand printing, having the most up-to-date information on the status of a job 
inside the shop is a critical requirement in order to deliver excellent customer service,” states Patrick Bolan, 
president and CEO of Avanti Computer Systems. “Receiving a call from your customer asking, ‘Where’s my 
job?!?’” can be an unpleasant conversation if you don’t have a quick and accurate answer.”

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