August 7, 2020
Pull Printing - Print Release - Follow me Style Printing OM Plus My-Print-Delivery (MPD) is Plus Technologies product for pull-print. Pull-print is also known as print release or in some cases follow me printing. My-Print-Delivery improves printing efficiency and security by holding a user’s “printed” documents on a secure print server until the user walks up to a convenient printer and authenticates/releases their jobs. As well as “Follow-Me Print.” In particular, we have many customers from a number of different industries that use the MPD feature. In addition to reducing overall print volume therefore saving cost, each user has their own unique…
July 31, 2020
Work-From-Home Printing More and more employees are working from home. However, working from home can present corporate print issues. In some cases, work-at-home employees need to print documents at home that are created on systems at the office. In other cases, employees need to print documents created at home at the office. Both these cases can be problematic. (more…)
July 29, 2020
SAP Basics Plus Technologies has been providing enhanced print solutions for the on-prem SAP environment for many years. We thought it might be helpful to share some background information about the SAP print environment. Years ago, the corporate computing environment consisted of mainframe computers (host), dumb terminals (workstations), and line printers. Then, in the late 70s and early 80s, the use of computers started to migrate away from the centralized, mainframe environment, where most applications were batch-based, to a more distributed configuration using personal desktop computers. (more…)
July 22, 2020
Competitors Making False Claims We have been informed by some of our customers that our competitors are making statements about Plus Technologies that are not always accurate. In a competitive sales environment such as the OMS market that may not be too surprising. However, we would like to take this opportunity to share a few specific examples and clarify what the competition is saying wrong about us. One cannot always take what the competitors say about Plus Technologies as being accurate. We encourage our prospects and customers to call us to verify the information they are being given. They can…
July 13, 2020
OM Plus Stats Manager (SM) - Print Metrics and Statistics OM Plus customers are taking advantage of OM Plus Stats Manager to capture the who + what + when print statistics. OM Stats Manager (SM) is a printing solutions application that enables organizations to analyze and understand the who, what, when, and where of printing, copying, faxing, and scanning in their enterprise. By collecting print spooling data Stats Manager is able to provide user based print metrics in addition to device based data. This user based metric allows organizations to understand who is printing, what they are printing, when they are printing,…
July 8, 2020
OM Plus Integration with MFP's Plus Technologies has been asked if OM Plus integrates with MFP's in order to facilitate pull-printing (sometimes called print release). The answer is yes, OM Plus MPD (My-Print-Delivery) does integrate with printers and MFP's to gather card reader data and to facilitate print delivery. OM Plus currently has an integrated solution with several vendors including Lexmark, HP, Xerox, Ricoh, Sharp and others. OM Plus also provides integration with Imprivata which adds an authentication capability to the pull print environment. There are several pull print workflows provided by OM Plus MPD to suit a number of…
July 2, 2020
Happy Fourth of July from Plus Technologies With the Fourth of July this upcoming Saturday we take time to reflect. This year has been tough for many individuals, families, businesses, and the country. Covid-19 has greatly impacted our country, and here at Plus Technologies we hope all of us continue to be safe practice social distancing. When the Declaration of Independence was signed 240 years ago, 56 patriots pledged their lives and their honor to defend our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Their legacy lives on today through generations of Americans who have made that same…
June 29, 2020
OM Plus Output Management/Print Solutions for Epic and Enterprise Plus Technologies has been providing Epic output management solutions (OMS) for over 12 years and have a large Epic installed base using our OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) print management software. We have implemented our OM Plus Epic OMS solutions in organizations ranging from one of the largest nationwide Epic users to smaller regional users. We work closely with Epic to make sure our solutions work properly, are current, add functionality, scalability, and reliability. Additionally, our software has been available in the Epic App Orchard, since they released Epic 2018 with…
June 26, 2020
OM Plus My-Print-Delivery (MPD) Software OM Plus My-Print-Delivery (MPD) pull-print software is Plus Technologies solution for pull printing. This pull-print solution is also know by other names. Names such as: print release, pull-print, follow-me, or find-me printing. The idea behind the concept is to improve printing efficiencies by holding user documents in the print system until the user releases the document while physically at the printer or multifunction device itself. There are many benefits for implementing OM Plus MPD such as: saving pages printed, reducing toner consumption and cost, and increasing document security. Pull-print works by allowing the user to print documents through their…
June 22, 2020
OM Plus Delivery Manager Print Spooler Management Software OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) is advanced, intelligent print spooler management software. Delivery Manager seamlessly ingests jobs from multiple systems and delivers them to printers, multi-function devices, fax software, email systems, and more. Rarely, changes are needed to existing ERP/EMR systems. OM Plus print spooler management software features include: print confirmation, re-printing, re-routing, automated failover, load balancing, bundling, re-sequencing, and much more. Plus Technologies’ print software solutions are based on our core OM Plus Delivery Manager software. Delivery Manager (DM) provides the core infrastructure such as: ERP/WMS/EMR integration, print job routing, confirmation of delivery, and…
June 18, 2020
SAP Print Spooling Software Many organizations print business critical documents such as invoices, labels, pick tickets, bills of lading, compliance documents, etc from their SAP ERP system. Problems with the printing of these documents will affect important business processes. Specifically, a missed label, pick ticket, or bill of lading can delay a shipment and cause a missed deadline. OM Plus Delivery Manager is an SAP BC-XOM certified print spooler with advanced, intelligent, print spooling software designed to seamlessly complement SAP ERP output. For SAP print spooling, OM Plus ingests and manages the delivery of output requests from one or more SAP and non-SAP…
June 5, 2020
Work-From-Home Printing More and more employees are working from home. However, working from home can present corporate print issues. In some cases, work-at-home employees need to print documents at home that are created on systems at the office. In other cases, employees need to print documents created at home at the office. Both these cases can be problematic. (more…)
May 29, 2020
Reasons for Output Management Software Output Management Software can be defined as: ‘an information technology system that takes system output (ie. print jobs) and deals with formatting, routing, bundling, bursting, load balancing, secure delivery, and confirmation of documents to the intended destination, most commonly printers. Plus Technologies’ market leading solution for Output Management is OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM). (more…)
May 20, 2020
OM Plus Printer Load Balancing Printer load balancing, or printing across multiple printers can significantly improve overall document output velocity. Another name for printer load balancing is printer pooling. In busy printing environments several jobs may be sent to the printer in a short period of time. However, when this happens the documents become stacked up and have to wait their turn before printing. With Printer Load Balancing, documents do not wait for prior jobs to print. Documents are routed to available printers and print right away. OM Plus printer load balancing allows a user to define a group of printers called a…
May 7, 2020
National Passenger Rail Service Rolls Out OM Plus Software Plus Technologies has licensed OM Plus Output Management Software to a national rail transport service (Amtrak). This company has ordered OM Plus Output Management software to help streamline its print operations. Specifically OM Plus is being used in the AWS cloud to route, transform, and print 'train bulletin" documents that are created on a remote system and emailed via a popular email SaaS vendor's cloud to ensure the documents are reliably delivered to printers and printed in the correct print format. Due to OM Plus' extensive print functionality changes were not…
