COT Holdings in Barbados has switched from Prism to EFI’s Monarch workflow/MIS system.
The company, which provides design, printing and marketing services to English-speaking customers in the Caribbean, has been steadily growing, particularly in package and wide-format printing. Nigel Worme, CEO and managing director, said of the decision to switch systems: “EFI Monarch is a very powerful, extraordinarily robust system, and we’re seeing huge gains in efficiencies, especially on the scheduling front with the integration to EFI PrintFlow. PrintFlow gives us a clear picture of the shopfloor workflow, without the need to print and post schedules, which used to take up a lot of production management’s time each day.”
PrinterSite Internal is also providing COT Holdings with more accurate pricing and the ability to more quickly give estimates to customers. The company is now installing the Digital StoreFront Web-to-print platform and Auto-Count direct machine interface as the next steps in their operational improvement plan.
“Digital StoreFront will allow us to maximize our digital equipment investments,” comments Worme. “It will reduce our estimating requirements and ensure consistent pricing for customers, while Auto-Count will further streamline our shop floor workflow. We look forward to getting the systems up and running soon.”