AlphaGraphics offers customers an industry first: The ability to do business with 300 plus stores over the Internet.TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 20, 1996--AlphaGraphics Inc., this month launches an innovative new service that allows customers to request printing quotes, place orders an even transmit print job documents over the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the to any store in the AlphaGraphics system. This makes AlphaGraphics the largest distribute-and-print network on the Internet as well as the first and only printing chain to offer direct electronic communication links between customers and every store in its system. Through the company's new World Wide Web site, customers can do business electronically with any of the more than 300 AlphaGraphics printshops in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and 20 foreign countries at no extra charge. No other quick printing chain has so many stores capable of receiving electronic files, and the few that do allow customers to conduct business over the Internet usually require the customer to install special software at additional costs. "We wanted to create an interactive, state-of-the-art Web site that went beyond the typical function of giving customers information and added the ability to actually get their work done over the Internet," said Gary Baraff, the company's director of marketing. "We were uniquely equipped to do this because, as part of our commitment to advanced technology, every store in our system has been Internet-capable for well over a year. No other printing organization has that capability throughout its entire network." The AlphaGraphics Web site includes easy-to-use forms for e-mailing inquiries, quote requests and printing orders, plus a store locator that enables customers to search by zip code zip code System of postal-zone codes (zip stands for “zone improvement plan”) introduced in the U.S. in 1963 to improve mail delivery and exploit electronic reading and sorting capabilities. , area code, city, state or country to quickly pinpoint the AlphaGraphics printshop where the correspondence should be sent. AlphaGraphics representatives reply by e-mail, creating a complete paperless system for efficient communication. The company's 85-page Web site also offers the industry's first electronic job bulletin board, which advertises career opportunities with AlphaGraphics stores anywhere in the world, as well as the first online application process for prospective new franchisees. In addition, it contains a wealth of reference information, including a practical resource called AlphaWizard that offers detailed guidelines guidelines, n.pl a set of standards, criteria, or specifications to be used or followed in the performance of certain tasks. for preparing electronic documents for printing, AlphaGraphics' complete Products and Services catalog catalog, descriptive list, on cards or in a book, of the contents of a library. Assurbanipal's library at Nineveh was cataloged on shelves of slate. The first known subject catalog was compiled by Callimachus at the Alexandrian Library in the 3d cent. B.C. , franchise information, company background and news about new products, services and developments. Advanced image compression Noun 1. image compression - the compression of graphics for storage or transmission compression - encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required and client-side image mapping were used to maximize performance, increasing download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. speed and making it possible to navigate (1) "Surfing the Web." To move from page to page on the Web. (2) To move through the menu structure in a software application. from point to point far more rapidly than within the typical Web site. AlphaGraphics' home page debuts May 20 at www.alphagraphics.com. For more information, contact Gary Baraff at 520/293-9200 or e-mail to baraff@alphagraphicsinc.com. CONTACT: AlphaGraphics Inc., Tucson Gary Baraff, 520/293-9200, ext. 2000 or S&S Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most , North Brook, Ill. Marcy Manning, 847/291-8421, ext. 251 |
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