Onlineprinters receives "AGFA Valued Customer Award 2013" / Agfa Graphics honours online print shop as long-standing printing partner

Neustadt an der Aisch, Germany (ots) - Agfa Graphics gave this
year's "Agfa Valued Customer Award 2013" to Onlineprinters GmbH to
thank the online printing service provider for the long-term trusting
business relationship and competence partnership. "We have been loyal
partners of Agfa since 2005 and we are proud of this award", Walter
Meyer, CEO of Onlineprinters GmbH, says appreciatively.
"Onlineprinters has become one of the largest single clients of Agfa
Graphics in Germany in the jobbing sector and we are impressed by the
company's international growth course", Frederik Dehing, Vice
President EMEA of Agfa Graphics, explains.

The German provider of online printing services has more than
250,000 customers in 30 European countries, offering its high-class
portfolio of offset and digital printed products via 13 online shops
in seven languages. An annual total run of 2.5 billion printed
products is produced on 90 printing presses at the Franconian
headquarters in Neustadt an der Aisch. This makes Onlineprinters GmbH
with its German brand die druckerei.de and the international
Onlineprinters label one of the largest online print shops in Europe.
"Our strong growth is contrary to the general trend in the printing
industry", Walter Meyer points out. In addition to the favourable
prices of the printed products offered in the online shop
www.onlineprinters.com , the company owes its success to the
technologically sophisticated and efficient production and IT-based
order processing system.

Competence partnership in prepress

"Maximum efficiency, high productivity and environmental
protection measures in production yield cost savings in the entire
printing process. Strong growth needs strong partners. With Agfa at
our side, we have the right competence partner for this task", Walter
Meyer thanks the team of Agfa Graphics. Integrated prepress solutions
from Agfa are used for the optimum production technology in prepress:
The prepress workflow handles up to 3,000 print orders each day
forwarded from the online shop into production. The optimal process
flow is ensured by the workflow solution Apogee Suite. The printing
plates required for the roughly 90 offset printing presses are
produced on the Agfa Avalon exposure units. The CTP exposure units
ensure the energy-efficient and eco-friendly laser exposure of the
printing plates. No more aggressive chemicals are used for developing
the prints. The Amigo TS printing plate from Agfa Graphics fits in
perfectly with the sophisticated production environment due to its
outstanding ecological and stable properties in production.
Onlineprinters exposes around 3,500 printing plates each day which
all enter the aluminium recycling process after use. Onlineprinters
GmbH has invested into a new Agfa exposure unit type Avalon N8-80 XT
with a daily capacity of 1,344 printing plates, which will boost the
total capacity to approximately 4,800 exposed printing plates per
day.

"The environmentally compatible prepress processes contribute
significantly to the high level of sustainability of our operations.
Agfa products make a major contribution to this achievement", Meyer
further. The company's greenhouse gas emissions were measured and
calculated in 2012 via a CO2 footprint. When ordering products in the
online shop www.onlineprinters.com, customers can thus choose the
"carbon neutral printing" option.

For more business information on Agfa Graphics, see
http://www.agfagraphics.com/global/en/maings/

About Onlineprinters GmbH German Onlineprinters GmbH is one of
Europe's largest online print shops. All standard printed products
are produced in the PSO- certified production department in premium
offset quality and in flexible digital printing technology and are
distributed via online print shops. Detailed information on products
and company is available in the online shop and mobile shop of
www.onlineprinters.com.

Press contact:
Patrick Piecha
PR Consultant
Phone: +49(0)9161/6209807
press@onlineprinters.com