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F1 Colour Gets a Head Start
F1 Colour installed Flowmation towards the end of 2006. Jamie Robinson, their Production
Director explains how this facilitated a contract with Alfol Publications, producers of 3 hair dressing
publications and has helped retain exsisting business.
THE COMPANY
Established in 1992, F1 Colour started as a digital only reprographics
based company in south London and by 1995 was Printweeks ‘Pre-
Press Company of the Year”. F1 Colour has won and been highly commended in various
industry awards since for it’s customer driven attitude and
willingess to diversify into related areas if benefi cial to it’s
clients. Digital print, photography, both studio and location,
and asset management being prime examples.
2002 saw F1 implement their fi rst online Digital Asset
Management system, wwWebfl ow, by Silicon Systems. This
allowed their clients to access their colour managed assets
where ever and whenever they wished to.Today F1 Colour employees 14 people and are as
progressive as ever. They are always looking at ways they
can add services of value to their clients that exceed their
expectations.
THE DRIVING FORCE
With some customers working across several locations F1
recognised the need for a system to approve the pages they
produced. Jamie Robinson, F1’s Production Director reveals “wwWebfl ow is a good asset management system with the
basic features required, including upload, download, searching,
resampling and storing fi les, but was not quite there from an
approval or project management viewpoint”.
“People are working in different ways now and it’s quite
common for there to be someone in another part of the
country or world who needs to be able to see a job and give
approval or comments”.
FLOWMATION
Silicon Systems contacted F1 Colour back in late 2005, they
presented them with the early workings of Flowmation and
asked them, with their experience and vision, to become
a Flowmation development partner. Flowmation combines
Digital Asset Management, Remote Approval and Project
Management in an efficient way. Jamie adds “We had been
using Silicon Systems for a number of years and were pleased
with their enthusiasm and williness to listen and react to our
needs”. Flowmation had some great functions and with us
having input into the final
product, it enabled us to
include our requirements
and those of our clients, we can see the fruit of that in the product that we
are using today”.
“When we saw the automated workflows Flowmation had to offer, we could
see the potential time savings. There was no doubt in our minds we needed
a bespoke solution and Flowmation could be the answer”.
“Since we have installed Flowmation we have shown it to a few of our major
clients, who have all been very impressed. They have realised the benefits
of the automated workflows online flatplanning and remote approval
functions”.
“Last year we presented Flowmation to Alfol Publishing, who produces 3 hair
dressing magazines. They have offices in both London and the North East of England and both need to be able
to view and approve the pages we produce for them. With Flowmation they can do this online whenever and
wherever they want to”.
THE FUTURE
F1 Colour are a Flowmation development partner who
have been working with Silicon Systems since they came
on board. Jamie explains “Utilising the technical benefits
of the automated workflows, we are developing a system
that will allow different ways of working for our customers,
depending on their needs and wants, whether it involves
them taking more responsibilites and the cost savings that
brings, or just a better way of working.”
The increased competitiveness has already lead to new
business. Jamie is very confident that the system will help
retain existing business too. He sees the potential, he states“We are currently rolling out flowmation to our existing customers who have been very impressed, we are also
showing potential clients, it offers us added value and opens doors for us, we have big plans for this year and
developements in our ways of working are going to play a big part in that”.
WHAT F1 COLOUR'S CLIENTS SAY
“We have now worked with F1 for
3 issues on our 3 monthly titles
using their new Online Flatplan and
Page Approval system. We went to
F1 with our scenario and they came
up with a solution, we are delighted
with the ease of use and yet depth
of functionality that it has to offer”
Catherine Small, Managing Editor,
Alfol Publishing
To find out how Flowmation can help you stay ahead contact us on 0118 377 6060 or click here.
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