Histoire Vistaprint

Histoire Vistaprint

Vistaprint a été fondée et Paris, France , et en 1995 par l'actuel président et chef de la direction Robert Keane, immédiatement après sa sortie de l'INSEAD Business School. Keane était intéressé et la fermeture de ce qu'il a perçu comme une lacune du marché et de l'industrie de l'imprimerie à l'égard de la micro-entreprise ou petits, développés et ce plan pendant les études. Parce que imprimeries traditionnelles typiquement généré commandes et ne les milliers, quelque chose que beaucoup de petites entreprises ne pouvions nous permettre, Keane perçu une zone avec un potentiel de croissance à court terme, l'impression haut volume. Treize ans plus tard Cette lacune a été reconnue par un certain nombre de détaillants, y compris Staples et OfficeMax, mais Vistaprint reste comme l'un des principaux fournisseurs.

Grâce à la technologie de pointe pour grouper les commandes similaires et les grands groupes, Vistaprint produit un grand nombre de commandes et de petites séries. Cela permet aux consommateurs d'obtenir les quantités et volumes faibles, aussi faibles que dix par exemple, plutôt qu'en milliers. Utilisation de l'Internet comme moyen, la conception graphique est offert par le biais des studios de design en ligne.N'importe qui peut ensuite concevoir un produit et le commander sur le site. Ces procédés et méthodes de fabrication ont été incorporés dans la ligne de l'entreprise de produits vaste.

Vistaprint

Vistaprint is an online supplier of printed and promotional material as well as marketing services to micro businesses and consumers. In the 26th annual Graphic Arts Monthly 101 listing, the company is the 40th largest (by revenue) and the 4th fastest growing printing company in North America. It is also the 6th largest public printing company (by market cap).^[2]

For the full fiscal year, revenue grew to $1,020.3 million, a 25 percent increase over revenue of $817.0 million in fiscal year 2011.Excluding the estimated impact from currency exchange rate fluctuations and revenue from acquired business,total revenue grew 20 percent for the full year

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Vistaprint process

Vistaprint applies the principles of mass production to printing, Vistaprint uses presses and processes of industrial printing for short-run commercial printing, while achieving units costs close to that of industrial printing.^[13] Using proprietary technologies, Vistaprint has managed to shift the conventional cost-volume curve, so that relatively short runs are still relatively inexpensive. This is a major competitive advantage, with many aspects of the process patented.^[14][15][16]

Vistaprint uses self-service design, proofing and ordering at the front-end through the web, and controlled printing, cutting, packing and dispatching at the back-end through printing plants. The key aspects of the process are system integration, aggregation, standardization andautomation.

Vistaprint's proprietary process involves multiple software components, and the management of multiple production components, in an end-to-end production workflow from "click to ship".^[17] Vistaprint is vertically integrated with two large production facilities, one for North America in Windsor, Ontario^[18] and one for Europe in Venlo, Netherlands.^[19][20] This allows the company full control over the entire production process, and allows it to invest in the most efficient presses (such as the MAN Roland 700) and technologies as part of its printing assembly line.^[21][22]

Vistaprint processes thousand of orders from many customers worldwide through their web site. Because of the high volume of orders, there is considerable homogeneity. Jobs can be gang printed using a complex formula based on such factors as type of job, paper stock type, run quantity, finishing (if any) and ship-by dates, among many others.^[23][24]

Vistaprint minimizes user selectable options typical in the low volume commercial printing world. They print standard types of printed materials, such as business cards or postcards. Within each category, it supports a specific size, paper stock and ink colors. This results in higher numbers of similar jobs which can be ganged together. It also results in faster changeovers because there's less need to change paper or inks between jobs