PlanetPress® Connect Category Characteristics

– Templates– Job ticket– Automatic setup & inline finishing

PlanetPress® Connect

PrintAutomation

Routine jobs, if processed “as it was always done” and distributed manually, are mostly time-consuming and error-prone, 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.

ENHANCE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY AND INCREASE PROFITABILITY

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 medium-sized 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

ENHANCE PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY AND INCREASE PROFITABILITY

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

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DISTRIBUTION

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

All automatically based on business rules and conditions:

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

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INTERACTION

After receiving a communicationthe recipients can take action.

– Answer an email– Fill a web form– Place an order– Pay an invoice

PlanetPress® Connect receives thisinformation and acts on it based onrules and conditions set up try the user to trigger follow-up processes.

System

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COMMUNICATION REENGINEERING

PlanetPress® Connect processesthe information and uses existing dataand resourcesto create personalisedcontent for print, email and web.

Enhance your existing layouts with:

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

Data mapper Interpretation of source data

INFORMATION INPUT

Data and documents are sent toPlanetPress® Connect from any hostsystem or application, like ERPs orfinancial systems, in any format.

– Automated– Based on rules– Runs in the background

Database

PDF

PlanetPress® Connect

MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Filesystem NTFS (FAT32 is not supported)Memory 8GB (10GB recommended)Hard disk space At least 10GBSoftware Java SE 7u13 Pre-Requisites Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 redistributable package (x86) Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Service Pack 1 redistributable package MFC Security Update (x86)

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONSMINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for PlanetPress® Connect Designer 1.0.0

Operating systems 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)

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