xl print have recently exhibited at the Capita Software Services National Conference, where the theme was Driving Service Transformation. The new Paris EDO functions provide an excellent example of how this idea can be put into practice.

Paris

Our high end, flagship product is designed to assist customers who normally have a wide range of complex applications to be designed and printed. An extensive array of features is incorporated into the Designer. These include a full set of drawing tools to make forms design a breeze; layers of powerful conditional processing to accommodate even the most complex data; full colour support; support for industry standard graphic formats; barcode and complex chart support; plus a host of additional features, all available in a WYSIWYG environment showing both data and form elements together on the screen.

As important as Design is, the main function of our products is to take basic host data files and turn them into documents ready to be delivered to electronic output. As with the Design tools we have developed a range of products to accommodate the different requirements of our customers.

Paris incorporates a very powerful spooling and formatting system. This product is designed to run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In many cases the spooler is driving multiple, high speed (180ppm) laser printers. To guarantee throughput in these high volume, production environments we have developed our own Postscript and PCL drivers. This combined with the multi-threaded design allows us to bring maximum efficiency to these environments. The spooler is a true enterprise level system providing support for up to 512 printers; support for multiple input sources; a printer centric view of the flow of documents plus user control over priorities, destinations, and flow of jobs.

xl print has a deep understanding of many of the legacy systems still widely used in the computer world. Many companies maintain proprietary systems from companies such as Xerox and Oce. Amongst our product offerings are tools to assist the customer in the migration process from these proprietary, legacy systems to open print technologies.

Recognising that many of our customers have a requirement to direct their documents to more than just the printed page, xl print also offer solutions for email, fax and delivery into archiving systems. The new EDO option allows e-mail and fax as well as providing a path that enables Paris created documents to be uploaded into EDMS systems.