Integrate Your Print Applications with IBM Infoprint Manager

Infoprint Manager

The Challenge: Integrate Your Print Applications with IBM Infoprint Manager

Your company has committed to the IBM Infoprint Manager product as the cornerstone of its Output Management strategy, focused on the integration of diverse printing environments into a seamless, automated system. Your mandate is to make sure that both your company's paper and digital print applications are compatible with this management tool. These are some of the challenges you may be facing:

You need to convert your print files to an efficient MO:DCA format
The converted documents must be searchable. Yet, you have found that while the free transforms included in Infoprint Manager are good at creating full page raster images of the page, these do not allow intelligent processing of the converted files.
You need to reengineer your documents for postal automation or other finishing needs

The Solution: Let PRO Suite Customize Your Documents for IBM Infoprint Manager

The PRO Suite of products has been designed to provide easy ways to include print output in IBM Infoprint Manager systems in an automated fashion. The PRO Suite integrates very well with IBM Infoprint Manager, on both UNIX and Windows platforms.

What is more, we work closely with IBM to ensure that our products work well in conjunction with Infoprint Manager. In many parts of the world our products can be purchased from IBM.

Convert for IBM Infoprint Manager

CrawfordTech transforms – PRO Meta to AFP, PRO PS to AFP and PRO PCL to AFP – convert customer files to Advanced Function Printing AFPDS format. The output AFP files can be used in the IBM Infoprint Manager systems. Our transforms can also select information from the print data and embed it into indexing (TLE) records in the AFP file while the conversion is being done.

Unlike full page raster images of the document pages generated by the free transforms included in the Infoprint Manager, CrawfordTech transforms create files that allow full intelligent processing.

Our PRO Meta to AFP product is an excellent choice for converting Xerox DJDE applications to AFP. This product supports all Xerox LCDS and metacode capabilities including highlight color features.

The PRO AFP Normalization product contains a device driver that creates normalized AFP output files. The normalized AFP files can be optimized through run-time options which control the way that resources are managed and the way that the normalized AFP is constructed. This product allows our plug-ins, such as PRO Document Enhancer, to be used on AFP files without converting them to other formats.

Reengineer Documents for Infoprint Manager

PRO Suite includes the PRO Document Enhancer plug-in that can reengineer a file by adding or suppressing text fields, OMR marks, barcodes or control numbers on document pages.

Top insurance companies, financial services companies, utilities and print service bureaus are using PRO Suite products to integrate their documents with the IBM Infoprint Manager.