Paperhub & printCafe Integrate XML Offerings; printCafe Extends the Integration of the Printing Process to Paper Fulfillment.

Business Editors

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 12, 2000

Paperhub(TM) and printCafe(TM) today announced their intent to coordinate their XML product offerings to enable paper fulfillment integration across the printing and publishing supply chain.

Paperhub provides a neutral common ground for the paper industry where mills, merchants, printers, publishers and the graphic arts community access critical online resources and services across the supply chain. This integration is enabled by PMLSM, a new Web-based XML specification, design tool and delivery engine developed by Paperhub in support of paper industry business collaboration.

"PML allows the paper industry supply chain to run more efficiently and effectively by enabling seamless integration from buyer to seller," said Mike Ehlenz, Director of E-Commerce for Paperhub. "This integration will allow companies to reduce costs and errors, ultimately delivering improved customer service."

printCafe is a leading internet software infrastructure provider for the printing industry. printCafe's Internet-based software is designed to integrate supplier products and services with buyer infrastructure software solutions. printCafe PCX(TM) is the integration framework for interfacing external systems and services with printCafe business management solutions.

In anticipation of the initiative, printCafe has been working with Paperhub to extend its PML transaction sets to include specifications required to interface with printCafe's suite of applications. In accordance with printCafe's PCX framework, Paperhub has offered PML transaction sets to the Graphic Communications Association (GCA) Business-to-Business Standards committee to aid the development work in this area.