InfoPrint ProcessDirector

Freedom of choice in transforming your transaction output operations.

An extensible, configurable output process management system that lets you start small and grow over time, InfoPrint ProcessDirector™ is modular software that can help you control and manage your transaction output processes. With core capabilities plus optional add-on features, InfoPrint ProcessDirector software enables flexible control of your print and mail production processes. It can streamline operations, improve process integrity, enhance operator productivity, reduce errors and help lower costs. InfoPrint ProcessDirector is also the backbone software of InfoPrint Automated Document Factory solutions: Mailroom Integrity, Postal Optimization and Output Manageability.

Highlights

• Automates print management with scalable workflow control functions
• Provides a database-driven process engine with an extensible backbone for process management
• Includes Print Services Facility^™ (PSF) print driver and a built in AFP^™ viewer
• Enables you to manage document reprints from within your print center, with precision
• Lets you start small and grow as your requirements change

Please contact your local InfoPrint Solutions Company representative or Solutions Partner for local availability.

InfoPrint ProcessDirector

Freedom of choice in transforming your transaction output operations.

Feature	Benefits
View-based reprints	Minimizes costly errors by using the browser-based viewer to select the correct print jobs in the queue for precise repositioning and reprints.
Common backbone, modular architecture	Helps you manage your current and future production processes using the extensible backbone to help reduce costs and improve quality. Customizes and extends operational management with optional add-on functionality. The system allows you to leverage industry standards and existing investments to start transforming your transaction output processes as your business needs dictate.
Database-driven process control	Allows you to scale your output operations. InfoPrint ProcessDirector is built on relational database software, which delivers a flexible and cost-effective database platform, based on open standards.
Standard programming interfaces	Connects add-on features and third-party programs so you can more fully leverage your investments.
Browser-based GUI	Improves productivity and ease of use. The browser-based GUI is included as a core capability that provides embedded Web server software. The intuitive and easy-to-learn dashboard allows you to supervise the production process.
AFP building capability	Enables you to build Advanced Function Presentation™ (AFP™) jobs from line data and index the data stream to take advantage of reprint functionality.
Print driver	Runs third-party and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS™) printers with the built-in print driver software.
Integrated InfoPrint transform features	Converts PDF, GIF, TIF, SAP, JPEG, PCL, PostScript® and Metacode¹ files into native AFP files for flexible, multithreaded output process management.
Third-party component support	Provides the ability to include third-party programs, such as page formatting and postal code sorting software, in the print workflow on the InfoPrint ProcessDirector server or on remote servers, enabling flexibility in your choice of new technology going forward.
Optional add-on functionality	Adds indexing, barcoding, customer SLA tracking, inserter integration, transforms and reporting capabilities. These capabilities can help you improve productivity, increase asset utilization and reduce errors.

1. Requires InfoPrint XT

InfoPrint ProcessDirector

Freedom of choice in transforming your transaction output operations.

Item	Description
Minimum hardware requirements:	AIX—One or more 1.9 GHz or faster RISC processors Linux—One or more 2.9 GHz or faster standard Intel® processor-compatible hardware 4 GB or more RAM¹ 200 GB or more disk storage Display with minimum resolution of 1024 x 768 Connectivity to the LAN CD-ROM or DVD-ROM device
Software requirements:	AIX Version 6.1, Technology Level 02 or later SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 9 Service Pack 2 or SLES 10 Service Pack 1
Submission methods:	LPR File copy or FTP to hot folders z/OS® AFP Download Plus Download for z/OS
InfoPrint ProcessDirector software offers:	View-based reprint capabilities that allow operators to use the browser-based viewer to select the correct document or individual pages for precise repositioning and reprints An extensible, modular framework and common backbone that allow you to add new components and functionality as your output needs evolve A Web browser-based graphical user interface (GUI) with a system dashboard running on embedded Web server software to help you manage jobs among multiple printers, prioritize jobs and move jobs to underutilized systems Page-level reprints (using bar code on document) and repositioning of in-process jobs Job-level tracking, reporting and dynamic process management The ability to define manual steps to track activities such as quality assurance Database-driven process control AFP builder capabilities that enable you to build AFP files from line data and index the data stream for reprint functionality IBM Print Services Facility (PSF) print driver to run third-party and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) printers The ability to include third-party programs which are installed on the InfoPrint ProcessDirector server itself or on remote Windows®, AIX or Linux servers, such as page formatting and document manipulation software, into your print workflow Custom solution components that either you or InfoPrint Solutions Company can configure

1. 12 MB RAM required for Inserter or Manufacturing Optimization features.

InfoPrint ProcessDirector

Freedom of choice in transforming your transaction output operations.

Customize your InfoPrint ProcessDirector^™ solution by adding one or more of the following add-on functions:

Reports: InfoPrint ProcessDirector Reports Feature provides reports that you can use for capacity planning, production efficiency measurement and optimization, and problem determination.

InfoPrint ProcessDirector collects data about job events, user actions, and printer activity, and then generates reports based on the data. You can use any of the reports that InfoPrint ProcessDirector supplies, or you can customize the reports to create your own.

InfoPrint ProcessDirector lets you:

• View reports and change how the information is displayed.
• Modify the supplied reports to create your own customized reports.
• Save and delete reports.
• Export reports as comma-separated value (CSV) files so you can print them or manipulate the data in spreadsheets or other applications.

Service Level Agreement (SLA): The Service Level Agreement Feature helps you manage service level agreements (SLAs). An SLA is the part of a contract that specifies the performance commitments you made with your clients. For example, an SLA might specify how long it will take for jobs to be printed or to be ready for mailing. InfoPrint ProcessDirector can help make sure that jobs meet the performance commitments. It does this by setting job checkpoints that let you track the progress of jobs as they flow through the system.

AFP^™ Indexer: The AFP Indexer Feature lets you create page groups and indexes in AFP files. When you view an AFP file that contains page groups and indexes in InfoPrint ProcessDirector, you can navigate in the file to find pages containing specific index values. You can also reprint all the pages in one or more page groups.

AFP Editor: Often, fully formed AFP datastreams from mainframe systems or outside customers must be printed, but need minor changes to the data, or new barcodes added. To make these changes at the application can be difficult, if not impossible. The AFP Editor allows you to take fully formed AFP datastreams into a visual tool, and make changes to the data.

The AFP Editor lets you create bar codes and hidden areas in AFP files. You can create bar codes that contain index values, job property values, and static text. For example, if the ZIP codes in an AFP file are indexed, you can create bar codes that contain the ZIP codes. You can also hide areas in AFP files so that no one can use an AFP viewer to see the data in the hidden areas and so that the data does not print. For example, you can hide areas that contain existing bar codes that you want to replace.

Inserters: The Inserter Feature can automate the insertion of printed documents and additional inserts (such as marketing materials) into envelopes.

The Inserter Feature can:

• Prepare print jobs for insertion.
• Write and send control files to inserter controllers.
• Receive results files from inserter controllers and interpret them to determine the insert status of each document in the job.
• Automatically (or manually, with operator control) reconcile the job, and reprint any damaged documents.

Manufacturing Optimization: Manufacturing Optimization allows you to expand the concept of a print workflow beyond controlling and tracking print jobs to encompass controlling and tracking individual documents in a print job. Without changing the application that creates the print job, you can change the way the individual documents are processed, using business rules to indicate what processing to do. The documents in the print job can be split into subset print jobs, sorted based on document-specific information like address data, or grouped into subset print jobs based on data in the document.

Without Manufacturing Optimization, the data in an AFP file is all one large unit. The tasks that you can do with this file are limited. If the AFP file is indexed (contains named groups and Tag Logical Element (TLE) structured fields), you can navigate in the AFP viewer to see boundaries in the file that correspond to mailpieces or documents, and you can select individual documents to reprint. However, you cannot do other manipulation of the individual documents in a file, such as rearranging their output order or grouping them according to different envelope size requirements.

Transforms: Datastream transform features integrate with IPPD to allow standard PDF, GIF, TIF, SAP, JPEG, PCL, PostScript^® and Metacode¹ print data to be easily brought into the system.

• Adobe^® PDF (v1.7) to AFP
• Adobe PostScript 3^™ to AFP
• PCL (Level 6) to AFP
• TIFF image to AFP
• GIF image to AFP
• JPEG image to AFP
• AFP to Adobe PDF
• InfoPrint XT metacode to AFP

1. Requires InfoPrint XT