Online Designer - A web opportunity

At Abacus we appreciate the need to have a comprehensive on-line ordering and design facility to enhance our comprehensive print facility - waterless offset.

We have been working closely with an experienced design team to produce a new and exciting on-line ordering facility. We are entering the final stages of this process and hopefully in early 2009 you will see this new facility up and running and ready for you to place your orders totally on-line. Of course you will still be able to place orders in the traditional way by sending artwork and origination by post. We will continue to scan, layout and typeset clients work as before. This new on-line facility is simply another option for people who wish to work in a digital on-line environment.

The new and greatly improved on-line ordering facility will have two sections one for experts and one for beginners. Both sections will allow full ordering and payment of your print order on-line. The experts section will allow artwork created on your computer to be uploaded, the order form completed and pricing and payments finalised in a secure online payment system. This will be a quick seamless opportunity offering several pre press proofing selections.

The beginners section will offer various templates into which your images from a mobile phone, digital camera, video or created artwork can be enlarged, cropped and placed. It will also offer guidlines for text positioning, text size, choice of font styles etc.

Our exciting new and improved site is not yet complete but we hope to have it up and running in the very near future. We will post regular updates with its progress and are all very excited and looking forward to its completion.