General description

Stores and reschedules your spooled output for automatic, grouping, sorting and printing, The process can also be applied to e-mail, archive or re-cycled lasernet processing. Schedule & Sort is primarily designed for companies with larger volume print runs which can benefit by collating documents that are going to the same postal address.

This saves on manual sorting costs and multiple postage costs.

If you run your own print room it allows you to manage any printing bottlenecks, collate print jobs with common destinations and to print these jobs where they require operator involvement during normal working

hours. If you automatically distribute printed copies to remote network printers on an ad hoc basis, it allows you to collect and print them as mini batches which will assist document processing, filing and reduce inadvertent loss.

In addition, print ready output can be sorted packaged, zipped and then despatched to print fulfilment houses for printing, stuffing and mailing which will reduce your third party handling charges.

• The schedule and sort program is administered and controlled within a web browser environment.
• The process requires Windows 2000 (or XP) and either MS SQL 7, MS SQL 2000 or MY SQL.
• You can define an unlimited number of schedule groups, each can be defined with up to 3 sorting categories and each group is composed of any number of related documents types.
• The schedule groups can be set to timed release - Daily, Weekly, Monthly or held for manual release.
• Sorted output can be sent to any number of different printers or zipped for onward routing to fulfilment houses.
• The print function can be used to distribute sorted print groups to specified printers based on the number of pages (e.g. 1 page documents to Printer 1 and Multiple Page Documents to Printer 2). This helps you to automate for example enveloping machines or human processes. It is also possible to add OMR marks after collation.
• Each schedule group can be defined to its own printer and events within a schedule can also determine a print destination.
• It can also provide a short term re-print facility.

At Mees Pierson Schedule and Sort is being used to sort the end of month client statements. This amounts to over 30,000 documents in any one group. Some customers names go to a different group for priority printing and special handling.