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Oki Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI® Printing Solutions brand, today introduced Smart Forms, an electronic forms solution that streamlines the process of creating, manipulating, printing and storing business forms. It combines the fast B6300 Series digital black-and-white printers with the flexible, open platform of PlanetPress Suite from Objectif Lune to provide an easier, faster way to handle paper-intensive processes while providing professional, personalized business forms on-demand.

Now, when to use PlanetPress Objectif Lune software is when you reach a certain volume and you are required to print a lot of those per day, per hour, per minute, or whatever your window is. If you are printing three or four invoices a month where you wait 1 minute for each invoice, it doesn't make much of a change, but if you print 10,000 in a space of three hours, then there are gains to be made. There is ease of producing it. There is also economy of scales by having streamline processes, archiving, sending by email, sending by fax, and things like that. There are all sorts of services that we supply around that. So our specialty is truly printing repetitive documents with some changes on them. We are not into printing books; we are not in printing posters. We are really printing corporate transactional documents and promotional documents, a letter or personalized brochure

In November, Objectif Lune, a successful provider of the PlanetPress 4 suite of print production software tools acquired Atlas Software, maker of PrintShop Mail. PSM makes it easy for users --especially graphic designers--to create variable content documents while using application programs they are already familiar with. Adding such capabilities to Objectif Lune's already comprehensive offerings--which include support for complex variable data makes a lot of sense for both firms. ODJ talked with Didier Gombert, CEO of Objectif Lune, to get some perspective on the deal and what it may mean for the company and the marketplace.

Variable data printing (VDP) strategies are on a lot of minds and whiteboards these days. "More people are interested in it because it's getting easier to do," stated one industry pundit. The VDP market is as dynamic and diverse as the documents it helps generate. Dozens of companies offer scores of solutions, while users and services providers are busy creating applications by the thousands. This report highlights the diversity of the market and provides a snapshot of some of the many solutions available.

Recently, Objectif Lune, a leader in solutions for the efficient design and high-volume printing of transactional and variable content documents, announced that it acquired Atlas Software BV, developer and marketer of PrintShop Mail Software, an easy-to-use, entry-level tool for variable document design and printing. As a result of the acquisition, the expanded organization says it is now firmly established as a dominant player in the rapidly developing variable content marketplace. OutputLinks recently took the opportunity to speak with CEO of Objectif Lune, Didier Gombert.

Objectif Lune will oversee the production of the variable content documents and the workflow system, through its PlanetPress suite of products. It will create a PDF for submission to EFI's Velocity Balance software, which in turn will separate the pages and send them either to the Canon CLC3200, if colour, or to the Heidelberg Digimaster 9150, if black and white.

The 2002 On Demand Digital Printing & Publishing Conference (aka the "On Demand Expo") was held April 22-25, 2002 at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City. Citatation Software personnel spent the week at On Demand. Here is our report […]. The PlanetPress variable-data-printing solution is different from virtually any other commercial variable-data-printing solution in that the data-merge process is managed in the printer. (Most variable-data-printing applications manage the data-merge process outside of the printer — i.e., on a server or on a host computer.) For this reason, PlanetPress is an ideal variable-data-printing solution for environments where security is of utmost importance. For example, if you need to print checks, or if you need to print patient records for a medical institution, PlanetPress might be right for your organization.

EasySpooler is proud to announce a recent partnership with Objectif Lune, the industry leader in printer resident forms technology. Objectif Lune was founded on the tremendous potential of the PostScript language, a standard in today's printing world. From day one Objectif Lune has specialized exclusively in the forms printing business. EasySpooler and Objectif Lune proudly announce EasyForm, a companion product to EasySpooler. EasyForm utilizes Objectif Lune.s PlanetPress, the PostScript program generator that drives INTELLIGENT FORMS. Inexpensive and user-friendly, EasyForm downloads INTELLIGENT FORMS to a printer

Mobile, AL - QMS, Inc. (NYSE:AQM) today introduced PlanetPress for QMS Print Systems, a revolutionary electronic forms package that allows users to store and print critical business forms on plain paper using QMS' versatile line of color and monochrome print systems. This new software eliminates the need for aging line printers and pre-printed business forms and the costs associated with them. Users simply design the forms they need, store them on the QMS print system's hard disk, and send the necessary data to the printer to be merged with the form – PlanetPress software handles the rest to deliver a customized, professional-looking business document.

The software PlanetPress (PC compatible) is responsible for the creation of an Intelligent Form. Once created, the Intelligent Form is downloaded into your PostScript printer's hard-drive. It then tells the printer what, where and how to print the form. The processing of the Intelligent Form is done directly in the printer and the forms are independent of the platform used (AS400, UNIX, VMS, DOS, etc.). The background images are either taken from EPS files or come from the Windows PostScript driver. The fusion of the images and the data is done by the printer.