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Automated document output and distribution management

PlanetPress Watch is your gateway to automated local and remote printing. Be more competitive by streamlining your document distribution workflow by reducing costs and increasing efficiency. Incorporate PlanetPress Imaging into the workflow for integrated PDF, TIFF and JPG generation for archiving, emailing and faxing. All of this with no human intervention!

Benefits

  • Gain operational efficiency
  • Reduce costs associated with document distribution
  • Capture and process data from almost any source
  • Automate your document distribution workflow
  • Route through user-defined business rules
  • Maximize output capacity
  • Eliminate errors due to manual interventions

1. Capture data. From one central location, PlanetPress Watch can capture data streams from almost any source: shared folders, LPD, Windows print queues, serial ports, emails, FTP, ODBC compliant databases, RAW Socket printing and more. 2. From data to documents. PlanetPress Watch looks at the data and routes it to the appropriate device to output the right document. You can also process the data to split it into several files, search and replace items, query ODBCcompliant databases for additional information, apply business rules or redirect conditionally. 3. Distribute your documents. Print at optimum speed on local/remote PostScript printers; send documents to companion module, PlanetPress Imaging, to create electronic versions, email, fax and archive them. Automatically post a digital version of your documents to an Electronic Document Management system, to the Web or on your FTP server.
 
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Advanced workflow enhancements.

PlanetPress Watch goes beyond basic print control functionality for your advanced workflow requirements of documents created in PlanetPress Design.

  • Integrate with Electronic Document Management Systems by incorporating PlanetPress Imaging
  • Perform data manipulation through the use of splitters, search and replace, concatenation and active scripting.
  • Call external programs to further automate or integrate with third party offerings.
  • Use built in web services to integrate with other workflow tools or to add functionality to web pages.
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