InfoPrint ProcessDirector

Optimize your output operations.

InfoPrint ProcessDirector is a cost-effective software solution scalable to your business needs. Gain flexible control of your print and mail production processes, streamline operations, improve job-level process integrity, enhance customer service, reduce errors, and lower costs.

Features:

• Provides a scalable output management workflow system
• Utilizes a database-driven process engine with an extensible backbone for process management
• Allows you to start small and grow with your business’s requirements
• Offers automated print management with job-level workflow control functions
• Enables you to manage document reprints from within your print center
• Core functions include File transfer the host, LPR, or hot folder, workflow assignment, print queue management, printer operation control, production process tracking from receipt of the print file to final delivery, streamlined reprint process utilizing an AFP viewer

Add-on modules include indexing and manipulation of bar codes for document reprint operations, managing jobs according to SLAs, and predefined and custom reporting to provide metrics on the production process:

• Print Services Facility™ (PSF) print driver and a built in AFP™ viewer

InfoPrint Mailroom Integrity solution

When you need to know that every envelope was mailed with the right customer information and be ready to prove it, you need an InfoPrint Mailroom Integrity solution. The InfoPrint Mailroom Integrity solution includes InfoPrint ProcessDirector plus the add-on features you need to track your mailpieces from receipt through insertion. Our Mailroom Integrity solution can help you:

• Index and barcode each mailpiece
• Automatically reprint documents
• Address compliance initiatives with full tracking and logging to prove exactly what was printed, inserted and mailed

Optional add-on features for InfoPrint ProcessDirector software:

• Reports
  Reporting capabilities can provide real-time metrics on the production process. Event data can help you optimize utilization of your resources and devices.
• Service Level Agreement (SLA)
  Management capabilities can help you avoid missed customer SLAs by enhancing your processes, improving your customer service and improving overall schedule integrity.
• AFP Indexer
  AFP indexing capabilities allow you to identify mailpiece boundaries within the print file without changing the application program that creates the print file. Reprint individual mail pieces easily.
• AFP Editor
  AFP editing capability allows you to insert, modify or delete barcodes without having to go to the host and modify applications. This capability can help you identify documents and set the foundation for file-based insertion.
• Inserters
  Configure file-based, non-file-based or camera-enabled inserters as part of your workflow system to allow for automated reprint management and control systems.
• Transforms
  Data stream transform features allow standard print data to be easily brought into the system.

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InfoPrint ProcessDirector

Optimize your output operations.

Feature	Benefits
View-based reprints	Minimize costly errors by using the browser-based viewer to select the correct print jobs in the queue for precise repositioning and reprints.
Common backbone	Manage your current and future production processes using the extensible backbone to help reduce costs and improve quality. Customize and extend your management of operations simply by attaching additional components to InfoPrint ProcessDirector™ software’s modular architecture. The system allows you to leverage industry standards and existing investments to start transforming your transaction output processes as your business needs dictate.
Database driven process control	Built on IBM ®DB2 Universal Database™ software, which delivers a flexible and cost-effective database platform, based on open standards, on which to scale your output operations.
Standard programming interfaces	Enables you to connect add-on features and third-party programs.
Browser-based GUI	Improve productivity and ease of use with the browser-based GUI. Included as a core capability that provides embedded Web server software, the intuitive and easy-to-learn dashboard allows you to supervise the production process.
AFP building capability	Build Advanced Function Presentation (AFP™) jobs from line data and index the data stream to take advantage of reprint functionality.
Print driver	Run third-party and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS™) printers with the built-in print driver software.
Integrated InfoPrint transform features	InfoPrint ProcessDirector software offers integrated InfoPrint transform features, which can convert PSF, PDF, GIF, TIF, JPEG and PCL files into native AFP files for flexible, multithreaded output process management.
Third-party component support	Provides the ability include third-party programs in the print workflow, such as page formatting and postal code sorting software, on the InfoPrint ProcessDirector server itself or on remote servers, enabling flexibility in your choice of new technology going forward.
Add-on features	Add indexing, barcoding, customer SLA tracking, inserter integration and reporting capabilities. These capabilities can help you improve productivity, increase asset utilization and reduce errors.

InfoPrint ProcessDirector

Optimize your output operations.

InfoPrint ProcessDirector at a glance

Item	Description
Minimum hardware requirements:	AIX®—One or more 1.9 GHz or faster RISC processors Linux—One or more 2.9 GHz or faster standard Intel® processor-compatible hardware 4 GB or more RAM 200 GB or more disk storage Display with minimum resolution of 1024 x 768 Connectivity to the LAN CD-ROM or DVD-ROM device
Software requirements:	AIX Version 5.3 with Technical Level 05 Service pack 4 or later SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Service Pack 2 or 10 Service Pack 1
InfoPrint ProcessDirector software offers:	View-based reprint capabilities that allow operators to use the browser-based viewer to select the correct document or individual pages for precise repositioning and reprints An extensible, modular framework and common backbone that allow you to add new components and functionality as your output needs evolve A web-browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) with a system dashboard running on embedded IBM WebSphere® Web server software to help you manage jobs among multiple printers, prioritize jobs and move jobs to underutilized systems Page-level reprints (using bar code on document) and repositioning of in-process jobs Job-level tracking, reporting and dynamic process management The ability to define manual steps to track activities such as quality assurance Database-driven process control built on IBM DB2® Universal Database™ software AFP builder capabilities that enable you to build AFP files from line data and index the data stream for reprint functionality IBM Print Services Facility (PSF) print driver to run third-party and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) printers The ability to include third-party programs which are installed on the InfoPrint ProcessDirector server itself or on remote Windows®, AIX or Linux servers, such as page formatting and document manipulation software, into your print workflow Custom solution components that either you or InfoPrint Solutions Company can configure

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InfoPrint ProcessDirector

Optimize your output operations.

Introduction

To compete effectively, you must reduce operational costs while improving throughput, optimizing asset utilization and maintaining production integrity. Yet the complexity of output environments is on the rise, which makes it difficult for you to optimize the production process, automate manual tasks (including job tracking and reporting, end-to-end), achieve full asset utilization and effectively manage service-level agreements.

Flexible features

Optimize process flows — InfoPrint ProcessDirector software enables you to write your own process flows; leverage standards, documentation and architecture to write your own functions within the flow; and integrate third-party software.

Control of the production print process — InfoPrint ProcessDirector software allows you to automate manual tasks to increase productivity and help lower the cost of processing. Additional capability provides accurate document reprints to help you avoid manual errors and increase productivity. The preview feature enables you to avoid mistakes by giving you confidence that the right document is being printed.

Manage document reprints from within the print center, with precision — InfoPrint ProcessDirector technology provides one system view from end to end, job-level tracking and an audit trail to help you improve job-level process integrity and quality to enhance customer service. InfoPrint ProcessDirector software provides an AFP viewer and reprint functions to streamline the process of reprinting a document.

Leverage the architecture — InfoPrint ProcessDirector provides a process engine and a backbone to which you can add new capabilities. This allows you to scale your output operations as your needs evolve and process and balance workloads to improve asset utilization and efficiency.

Leverage existing investments

The InfoPrint ProcessDirector software backbone allows you to customize and extend your operations by attaching additional components. This modularity enables you to leverage existing investments to begin transforming your transaction output processes by starting small and growing over time. InfoPrint ProcessDirector software helps protect your existing investment in InfoPrint Manager for InfoPrint Solutions Company AIX 5L™ software by acting as a process control system on top of the existing installation. A vendor-neutral solution, InfoPrint ProcessDirector software can work with third-party InfoPrint Solutions Company Intelligent Printer Data Stream™ (InfoPrint Solutions Company IPDS™) printers, third-party composition software packages, and other InfoPrint Solutions Company solutions and products, including InfoPrint Solutions Company eServer™ pSeries^® servers.