Technological advances have granted virtually every end user access to on-demand document output. Although quicker and more convenient than ever before, printing remains an expensive proposition without the proper management systems in place.
IKON’s Professional Services team can provide your business with greater control over your documents, workflow and printing resources. Our solutions will help you automatically route print jobs to the most appropriate output device based on quality, speed, finishing and/or cost-per page requirements.
IKON’s Document Output Management portfolio of best-in-class hardware and software solutions will be designed and integrated to meet your business needs, making your print operations and activity more efficient while controlling your document production costs.
Our Document Output Management solutions enable:
- Data stream conversion to link legacy jobs with cutting-edge print technology
- Automated job scheduling to minimise downtime or perform off-hours production
- Remote job/device monitoring to alleviate IT/MIS responsibilities
- Load-balancing to improve device productivity
- Web-based print job submission to support local or remote employee needs
- Electronic job ticketing to streamline production and delivery processes
- Discovery of networked print devices to streamline installation and ease IT/MIS workload
- Advanced print queue management to increase user/operator productivity
- Customisable workflow to meet unique application requirements
- Job parsing across multiple devices
1. Device Management
2. Printer Resource Management
3. Print Submission and Job Scheduling Process
4. Data Stream Conversion
5. Document Composition
1. Device Management
IKON Professional Services personnel can help you to implement a solution to manage the output devices on your network. IKON Systems Analysts work with such industry-standard tools to make installation easier and less time consuming for your internal IT/MIS resources which are often overloaded with responsibilities. IKON can also assist you in designing a strategy to increase the uptime and productivity of your devices, leveraging redundancy, smart job routing and automated e-mail alerts. In addition, our Activity Identification and Measurement Services will allow you to optimise the utilisation of your output fleet, from managing page volume-to-device ratios to client/department bill-back.
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2. Printer Resource Management
Our Systems Analysts can assist you in devising tools to automate and monitor your print job scheduling process to maximise productivity and minimise missed deadlines and downtime. IKON’s solutions allow users to submit print jobs to their production print centres as easily as printing to a desktop device. Such solutions, in addition to load-balancing and job management enablers allow print centre personnel to make the most effective use of your technology, based on cost, speed, quality, colour or finishing requirements.
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3. Print Submission and Job Scheduling Process
Legacy applications can be migrated from antiquated hardware to enable more efficient document workflow that leverages the advances of modern technology. IKON’s solutions can allow you to take print output from outdated equipment and produce it on today’s more cost-effective and high-quality devices. Print conversion solutions allow you to consolidate many applications onto one printer, facilitating the right-sizing of your enterprise fleet.
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4. Data Stream Conversion
Legacy applications can be migrated from antiquated hardware to enable more efficient document workflow that leverages the advances of modern technology. Solutions such as Rochester Software Associates M.I.S. Print and Solimar Print/Director allow you to take print output from outdated equipment and produce it on today’s more cost-effective and high-quality devices. Print conversion solutions allow you to consolidate many applications onto one printer, facilitating the right-sizing of your enterprise fleet.
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5. Document Composition
IKON can provide you with advanced job preparation tools that increase operator productivity and streamline productivity. IKON’s production management tools give you a new level of creative control over your documents through a broad array of digital pre-press and make-ready functionality. IKON Professional Services Analysts can assist you in developing high-end functionality and to produce complex applications such as: booklets and training manuals, brochures, newsletters, marketing guides, presentations, proposals and prospectuses.
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