Discount software available to industry

Printing Industries has come up with a solution to minimise the recurring cost of a necessary and ever present business cost, software.

CEO Philip Andersen said that the Printing Industries membership survey in 2006 identified software as a cost its members wanted to reduce. This prompted a pilot project in which the association has become a software reseller passing on the benefits to its members via reduced prices.

"The pilot was very successful and we have now made discounted software supply a membership benefit that all member companies can benefit from," he said.

"Our core offerings cover the commonly used industry products from Adobe and Quark and we can supply ca, Corel, Roxio, Microsoft, McAfee, Redhat, Symantec, Trend Micro and vmware software.

"Software is a very real business cost and companies in our industry always need to be up to date with licensed products. We have made that bit easier and cheaper to do."

Andersen said significant savings were available across all products and could range up to thousands of dollars for some high end products such as Font Folio.
"Marking our launch we have a number of extra limited specials on a first in basis on everything from Acrobat 8 Professional upgrades to CS3 Design Premium, free software valued at $499 combined with free delivery on some Quark purchases and no credit card fees for members.

"We will be progressively expanding our offerings based on the needs of our industry and will be making important announcements soon on related projects designed to boost the productivity and competitiveness of companies," he said.

Details of the software specials are in the October edition of Print 21 magazine and via this link.