Software Products

EFI

Overview

EFI OneFlow™ delivers an advanced prepress solution that connects digital and offset environments. The digital workflow software, based on Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF), offers an easy-to-use, cost effective product that caters to the production requirements of professional printers.

Feature Highlights

• Enhanced workflow capabilities. With its intuitive, icon-based interface, users can customize their workflow for prepress functions. Its powerful production tools such as Hot Folders convert files to PDF, PDF/X PS, EPS and TIFF/IT, while its Automated Prepress tools enable preflight, file correction, trapping, imposition and proofing.
• Advanced colour management system. EFI OneFlow incorporates Adobe’s-based RIP and EFI ColorWise® to generate vibrant, accurate colour. The solution also provides the RIP Once Output Many (ROOM) architecture combined with Best® technology to produce proofing features that integrate into any computer-to-plate, computer-to-film, direct imaging or digital-printing environment.
• Saves time and labour. OneFlow Imposition streamlines prepress operations by fully automating the imposition process -- saving time and reducing labour costs. This feature stores and organizes all elements such bars, trims, folds, marks and templates, while allowing users to preview final PDF-imposed signatures and make last-minute changes.
• 24/7 job management. The OneFlow Job Tracker Application enables easy job tracking and management in real time from anywhere. OneFlow’s interactive Job Edit feature also offers interactive settings for trapping, spot colours, imposition templates and automatic corrections for all job requirements.
• Increased productivity. The solution streamlines prepress operations by automating labour intensive steps and eliminating potential errors. It also speeds make-ready and job turnaround time, while improving document quality and consistency.
• Seamless integration with other EFI technology. The solution offers compatibility with the other EFI products.

ePrint

Traditional ways of producing volume documents in which the customer physically carries them to a production centre where they are scanned and copied meets none of the requirements for speed, accessibility or quality.

With the introduction of modern digital production printers, online services become a real possibility. Unfortunately, as anyone who has tried to send a complex document by email will know, it is not simply a case of emailing work to the production centre. Documents sent this way are often received incomplete with confusing instructions on how the work is to be produced and presented

To make remote services a practical possibility Print Room customers and Operators need a tool that is simple to understand and easy to use. RemotePrinter provides this and more.

Embracing JDF technology and focusing on easy to use solutions to complex problems, we provide the sound foundations and open standard workflow that future proofs our customers’ investment and improves profitability.

• Reduce corporate print costs
• Raise awareness of Print Room services
• Improved Print Room accessibility
• Increase Print Room volumes
• Increase Print Room revenues
• Improved productivity

Xralle

Xralle is an internet to print, e-commerce print procurement system that has been designed to enable the end customer to create, change and order documents via the Internet. These documents can be as simple as a business card or as complex as a variable data direct mail piece.

Highly profitable levels of automation can be achieved by the combination of an online instant proofing system and JDF information allowing turnaround times, administration costs and wastage to be dramatically reduced.

Xralle’s principle components are a front end web-based customer interface and a back end administration module linked to a digital printing engine. This front end interface enables the printer’s customer, or even a print management company, to quickly create jobs, update template data and order work from the printers digital production facility via the Xralle server which produces print ready PDF’s and XML files. The system can also be integrated with a management information system (MIS) and an online digital asset management system to allow access to logos, special fonts and image files in addition to web-based publishing software to enhance online document editing and creation. An online archive allows customers to personalise and place a print order before tracking it through to completion, all from their own computer.

Key Benefits

• Order documents over the Web
• Automate costly proofing and administration
• Customise templates to create variable documents
• Manage collateral online
• Seamlessly integrate with MIS systems
• Fully customise the user interface

Gandlake

Document composition

LaserServe, Gandlake’s output management solution is used by financial services, retail and FM Bureaus and is deployed in more than 25 per cent of English and Welsh local authorities. LaserServe is ideal for any organisations who want to control the look and feel of their output which is generated from a variety of platforms, locally on or across multiple channels. LaserServe provides document composition, print queue management and multi channel output including print, email, html, xml, pdf, fax, and sms.

LaserServe helps you to generate high-value, personalised, intelligent output more efficiently:

• Modify documents quickly and easily, removing the need for pre-printed stationery and optimising the use of space
• Easy to use graphical interface with drag and drop for data positioning
• Decouple document design and production, and allocate its function to any appropriate department in your organisation.

Print management
LaserServe will enhance your environment’s overall print performance:

• Productivity will increase through greater automation, delivered by advanced scheduling and job management facilities
• Exploit all of the printers, MFPs and reprographics devices available to you, as demand grows or the specific need arises, because of LaserServe’s open architecture
• Migrate away from expensive proprietary print regimes
• Manage multiple sites as one.
  

Multi-channel output
LaserServe will deliver huge cost efficiencies through the enabling of integrated electronic output.

• Realise significant cost savings by integrating non-paper channels, including the Internet, intranet, email, fax, XML, HTML, SMS and PDF
• Customers, or staff can benefit from immediate access to important documents online
• Output can be integrated with Gandlake EDM for the secure storage, archive and retrieval of documents
• Output your document information to Gandlake Citizen’s Account for secure web presentment, e-Billing, e-Statements and e-Pay.

Audit
Creation of audit files for ongoing output control and cost management.

Minimising future cost of change
Additionally, LaserServe customers benefit from the following key characteristics that will ensure future stability and minimise perceived risk:

• Totally vendor-independent, scalable, open architecture that will support any inputs, and drive any mix of output devices and channels
• Non-invasive, parallel testing regime that will protect business as normal
• Speed of deployment
• Free upgrades and Support

PlanetPress

Objectif Lune’s PlanetPress 4 and PlanetPress Suite offer you an Adobe® PostScript® forms design and document management solution.

PlanetPress 4 is a design tool that is used to create and modify forms and map variable data on the electronic forms.

• This package will allow you to download electronic forms to PostScript printer’s RAM, flash memory, or hard disk.
• Data can then be sent directly to the printer, where all text, graphics and data are merged on the printer, providing ultimate throughput and minimizing network traffic.

PlanetPress Suite consists of the following modules:

PlanetPress Watch is a document workflow tool that may be used to automate printing process and enable electronic distribution of your documents.

• Captures incoming data streams, processes and routes them to multiple output destinations
• Enables output job splitting, cluster printing, remote printing, archiving in PDF, JPG and TIFF formats and document distribution via e-mail or fax (in conjunction with other PlanetPress Suite modules)
• Installs on IBM xSeries servers running Windows®
• Helps you consolidate print operations, satisfy customer preferences for document receipt, and optimise human resources

PlanetPress Image plugs into PlanetPress Watch.

• Enables automatic generation, delivery and archiving of conditional PDFs, JPGs or TIFFs using the same variable data content as your printed output
• Enables you to provide your customers e-mail as a delivery option
• Can help your customer call centre by integrating an electronic archiving solution into their business process. You can reduce physical document storage requirements by scanning printed documents into a databases of indexed PDFs and then optimise the document retrieval using PlanetPress Search
• Leverage the electronic sales channel by using PDF document formats with the capability of embedding hyperlink navigation and click-back calls-to-action.

PlanetPress Search is an Adobe Acrobat® plug-in.

• Enables multi-document searching through an optimised database of archived PDFs
• Allows you to create user-defined databases from your archive’s folder structure and simultaneously construct search queries based on user-defined search indices
• Speeds up searches of archived documents for on-screen viewing or reprinting
• Helps you identify meaningful business intelligence from your archived documents, leverage knowledge of Adobe Acrobat software, and optimise business results with a single integrated process for print, distribution, archiving and database-driven searching

PlanetPress Fax enables automatic, direct faxing of documents via modem or fax server.

PlanetPress iWatch is a software application that enables you to print PlanetPress documents to a PostScript printer from IBM iSeries servers.

• Removes the need to add a Windows print server to integrate Objectif Lune’s PostScript printing solution on the iSeries integrated platform.

Collectively you can use Planet Press Watch on a Windows server to capture a sample spool data file format from the iSeries server. After sample spool data is captured, you use PlanetPress Design Tool to create your form, which can be compiled and sent along with the trigger file directly to the iSeries server via FTP. Alternatively, just the trigger can be sent to the PlanetPress iWatch, and the PlanetPress document can be sent to the target printer.