Ricoh InfoPrint Pro C900AFP InfoPrint Manager - Page 266

Replacing pre-printed forms, The solution

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v Update the InfoPrint Manager destinations so they send the print jobs that contain photographs to the printer line that has the AFP Color Emulation feature installed. v Create print jobs that call the images using the names that they were given when they were installed. Replacing pre-printed forms A bank wants to reduce the amount of paper that it stores. If the bank eliminates some of the pre-printed forms that they use by printing some statements on a color printer, they can use the same type of plain paper for various applications. Over the last five years, the bank has purchased ten smaller banks and is in negotiations for several others. The parent bank uses an AFP system to print statements in-house on pre-printed forms. All the pre-printed forms contain color logos. Some of them also contain background images or blocks of color that divide the page into regions. The existing system consists of: v InfoPrint Manager for AIX, including the Page Printer Formatting Aid (PPFA) feature v Three duplex InfoPrint 4000 lines v Two duplex InfoPrint 4100 lines Print jobs are submitted as line data and InfoPrint Manager transforms them into AFP. AFP resources are stored in a central location. There are no color production printers in use. The banks that were acquired handled printing in different ways. Some of them had their own print shops; some of them outsourced print to other companies. The print staff at the parent bank has spent a significant amount of time moving the printing operations of the acquired banks to their in-house print operation, starting with the ones that outsourced their print. Five of them have been converted. The print shop administrators are starting to face some interesting issues: v The increased workload for the in-house operation means that they need to increase their print capacity. v Each of the banks that the parent has purchased has maintained its own logo and branding. Each time one of the banks has been integrated with print operations, it has brought with it at least five different pre-printed forms that need to be ordered and stored. v Even though each kind of pre-printed form comes from the same vendor, the colors vary noticeably. v The acquired banks will eventually replace their old logos and forms with the logo and forms of the parent bank, but the dates are not yet planned. With the increase in the number of forms that must be stored, space is becoming a problem. The team knows that they have to expand printing capacity, but they do not have space for a new duplex line. If they could eliminate some of the paper that they have to store, they could use that space for the new line. The solution The InfoPrint Solutions Company team proposes an AFP color solution to: v Transform their pre-printed forms to simple color statements and eliminate the need for pre-printed forms, thus reducing the paper that needs to be stored. 248 InfoPrint Manager for Windows: Procedures

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v
Update the InfoPrint Manager destinations so they send the print jobs that
contain photographs to the printer line that has the AFP Color Emulation feature
installed.
v
Create print jobs that call the images using the names that they were given
when they were installed.
Replacing pre-printed forms
A bank wants to reduce the amount of paper that it stores. If the bank eliminates
some of the pre-printed forms that they use by printing some statements on a color
printer, they can use the same type of plain paper for various applications.
Over the last five years, the bank has purchased ten smaller banks and is in
negotiations for several others. The parent bank uses an AFP system to print
statements in-house on pre-printed forms. All the pre-printed forms contain color
logos. Some of them also contain background images or blocks of color that divide
the page into regions. The existing system consists of:
v
InfoPrint Manager for AIX, including the Page Printer Formatting Aid (PPFA)
feature
v
Three duplex InfoPrint 4000 lines
v
Two duplex InfoPrint 4100 lines
Print jobs are submitted as line data and InfoPrint Manager transforms them into
AFP.AFP resources are stored in a central location. There are no color production
printers in use.
The banks that were acquired handled printing in different ways. Some of them
had their own print shops; some of them outsourced print to other companies. The
print staff at the parent bank has spent a significant amount of time moving the
printing operations of the acquired banks to their in-house print operation, starting
with the ones that outsourced their print. Five of them have been converted. The
print shop administrators are starting to face some interesting issues:
v
The increased workload for the in-house operation means that they need to
increase their print capacity.
v
Each of the banks that the parent has purchased has maintained its own logo
and branding. Each time one of the banks has been integrated with print
operations, it has brought with it at least five different pre-printed forms that
need to be ordered and stored.
v
Even though each kind of pre-printed form comes from the same vendor, the
colors vary noticeably.
v
The acquired banks will eventually replace their old logos and forms with the
logo and forms of the parent bank, but the dates are not yet planned.
With the increase in the number of forms that must be stored, space is becoming a
problem. The team knows that they have to expand printing capacity, but they do
not have space for a new duplex line. If they could eliminate some of the paper
that they have to store, they could use that space for the new line.
The solution
The InfoPrint Solutions Company team proposes an AFP color solution to:
v
Transform their pre-printed forms to simple color statements and eliminate the
need for pre-printed forms, thus reducing the paper that needs to be stored.
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InfoPrint Manager for Windows: Procedures