NEW YORK, July 26, 2010 – Traxion, the digital communications division of Sells Printing Company in NewBerlin, Wis., opened its doors in 2008 with a mission to be a state-of-the-art provider of digital, one-to-onecommunication services featuring the highest quality creative combined with uncompromised, interactive userexperiences. To accomplish this, Traxion selected XMPie® PersonalEffect® and uStore® along with a XeroxiGen3™ 110 Digital Production Press, and implemented a team with data, design, programming andproduction expertise in the digital media space.

Traxion selected XMPie because it needed a scalable solution for variable data printing, dynamic websites andpersonalized e-mail, combined with solutions for developing Web portals and powerful personalized imagingcapabilities. It was also important to Traxion that its solution leverage Adobe® publishing technologies through aseamless and streamlined integration.

One of Traxion’s first customers, Lentz Design, provides personalized marketing materials to real estate agentsthrough a Web portal. Lentz enables agents to individually create and produce postcards for promoting theproperties they are offering for sale. Ease of use and compelling creative were important to Lentz, and thecompany decided to enlist Traxion’s help in implementing its vision for a new realtors’ portal.Using XMPie’s image personalization tool, uImage®, with the Adobe Creative Suite, Traxion created dynamicpostcard templates, which they branded as “The Wow Factor.” One popular and effective template features therecipient’s name on a street sign, drawing their attention to a message about a new home on the market.With uStore, its software development kit (SDK), and XMPie’s uProduce™ Web Services Application ProgrammingInterfaces (APIs), Traxion created a new Web portal that retained the look and feel that Lentz desired, but providedbackend capabilities that not only brought about more compelling creative, but also significantly improved therealtors’ user experience. Among the improvements, postcard customization and ordering time was reduced to afew minutes instead of hours, driving increased activity and repeat orders. Also, uStore’s support for online fieldmapping, which enables agents to upload mailing list files and map data to the variables contained in thetemplates, also emerged as a significant efficiency and ease-of-use benefit.

Print volume generated from the site has increased, and uImage-based offerings have driven volumes as high as27,000 pieces per order. The system is also modular and flexible enough to enable site changes in just days, whichhelps Lentz Design continually refine the types of postcard designs offered.In the nearly two years since opening, the organization’s digital print business has doubled, prompting an upgradeto a Xerox iGen4™ Press, and it has grown its Web-to-print offering from one customer storefront to 13, whichserve more than 28,000 users.  “It’s a growth business and we’re on track to make it a very successful one for us,” said James Lenartz, manager ofdigital operations, Traxion.

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