Planetpress connect print automation datasheet

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Category

Characteristics – Templates – Job ticket – Automatic setup & inline finishing

Print Automation

PlanetPress® Connect

ENHANCE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY AND INCREASE PROFITABILITY Routine jobs, if processed “as it was always done” and distributed manually, are mostly time-consuming and errorprone, and can easily cause misprints leading to costly mistakes. And this despite the fact that communication with customers these days should: Take into account the customer’s preferences; concentrate on the relevant information; and automatically create clearly targeted messages, reducing manual labour and eliminating human errors – all of which can be achieved with effective print automation.

For any corporate output environment in charge of managing the distribution of business communications and documents, PlanetPress® Connect is the perfect print automation tool. Offering workflow tools for individual requirements, PlanetPress® Connect facilitates the creation of personalised direct mails, invoices, e-mail campaigns, mobile information, and versioned brochures that are sure to capture the reader‘s attention and get the message across. Thus, the application is ideally suited for mediumsized businesses that want to start producing digital output but cannot afford to make expensive changes to their existing systems or invest in customised software.

Users can make choices depending on whether printing is mostly printer-centric, mainly concerns existing documents rather than print data, or larger print jobs need to be produced quickly with page-based finishing and subset finishing options. Furthermore, PlanetPress® Connect provides full control of printing and paper handling features: Ideal for users operating in a commercial print environment, PlanetPress® Connect allows overlaying data on customers’ designs and supports device-specific settings such as dynamic tray pulling, (subset) finishing, scripting (i.e. for crash numbering), and dynamic imposition.

As an indispensable tool for print automation, PlanetPress® Connect offers a comprehensive functionality related to templates, and facilitates the automatic setup as well as inline finishing.

DATASHEET PlanetPress® Connect

KEY FEATURES Templates – Drag & drop: Data can be extracted from any source with simple drag & drop to create a uniform data set.

– Individual data configurations: Data configurations can be saved for use in the designer and can be flexibly reused as required.

– Efficient data mapping: This action is carried out just once during setup; after that, mapped data are available indefinitely on demand. From this follows that design and data extraction are separate steps in the process so that each step is in the hands of the person best qualified for that particular job.

Automatic setup & inline finishing – Full control of printing and paper handling features: Ideal for example for users operating in a commercial print environment, PlanetPress® Connect allows overlaying data on customers’ designs, and supports device-specific settings such as dynamic tray pulling, (subset) finishing, scripting (i.e. for crash numbering), and dynamic imposition.

– Automated distribution: With PlanetPress® Connect, it is all available, i.e. multi-channel business communications, mail preparation, the creation of transactional documents and output, automated archiving, and document enhancement.

DATASHEET PlanetPress® Connect

WORKFLOW INFORMATION INPUT

COMMUNICATION REENGINEERING

Database PlanetPress® Connect

DISTRIBUTION

INTERACTION

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Data mapper Interpretation of source data

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System

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Data and documents are sent to PlanetPress® Connect from any host system or application, like ERPs or financial systems, in any format.

PlanetPress® Connect processes the information and uses existing data and resourcesto create personalised content for print, email and web.

PlanetPress® then outputs the documents. Anything can be automated at this stage.

After receiving a communication the recipients can take action.

– Automated – Based on rules – Runs in the background

Enhance your existing layouts with:

All automatically based on business rules and conditions:

– Colors – Barcodes – Inserter controls – Page overflow – Complex tables – Dynamic graphs – Wrap around text

– Split, merge and sort files – Archive – Print – Send emails – Send text messages – Serve web pages and web content

– Answer an email – Fill a web form – Place an order – Pay an invoice PlanetPress® Connect receives this information and acts on it based on rules and conditions set up try the user to trigger follow-up processes.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for PlanetPress® Connect Designer 1.0.0

MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Operating systems

Filesystem Memory Hard disk space Software Pre-Requisites

NTFS (FAT32 is not supported) 8GB (10GB recommended) At least 10GB Java SE 7u13 Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 redistributable package (x86) Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 redistributable package MFC Security Update (x86)

Konica Minolta Business Solutions Europe GmbH Europaallee 17 30855 Langenhagen Germany www.konicaminolta.eu

05/2015

Microsoft Windows 2008/2008 R2 Server (64) Microsoft Windows 2012/2012 R2 Server (64) Microsoft Windows Vista (64) Microsoft Windows 7 (64) Microsoft Windows 8.1 (64) (Windows XP, Windows 2003 and older versions of Windows are not supported)