Applied Materials Business Card Order Center

Pro Print & Services, a printing company, needed a smarter way to handle recurring business card orders for their high-volume corporate client Applied Materials. The manual ordering process was slow and error-prone. I built a web-based order center that automated the workflow end to end — from employee card customization through manager approval and print-ready PDF generation, with a custom CMS so the print team could manage all orders without developer involvement.

Title

Developer

Context

Built for Pro Print & Services to serve their Applied Materials corporate account.

Scope

Full project ownership — front-end UI, back-end order logic, PDF generation, and the admin CMS.

Applied Materials employees ordered business cards through slow, error-prone email back-and-forth — typos, missing approvals, and no self-service preview before print.

• Business card order form

  Problem

  Employees ordered cards through slow, error-prone back-and-forth.

  Fix

  A web form with live validation for card details.

  Result

  Orders started complete and valid instead of bouncing on typos.

• PDF preview

  Problem

  Employees couldn't see the card layout until it was already in print.

  Fix

  Server-generated PDF preview before submit — preview matched print output.

  Result

  People caught layout mistakes before the order went to a manager.

• Manager approval workflow

  Problem

  Orders went to print without a gated approval step.

  Fix

  Email-notified manager approval before print.

  Result

  Only approved cards reached the print queue.

• Print-team CMS

  Problem

  The print team had no place to track orders, statuses, or approval history.

  Fix

  A custom CMS for Pro Print employees.

  Result

  The shop could manage the Applied Materials pipeline without a developer.

• Order history

  Problem

  Order history lived in email threads, not a system of record.

  Fix

  Database-backed order management with full history and status tracking.

  Result

  Any order could be looked up instead of hunted down.

Reduced manual workload for the print team and sped up ordering for Applied Materials employees — self-service, approval-gated flow replacing email back-and-forth. Internal corporate scale; don't remember exact order volume.