January 21, 2020
Logistics and Warehouse Printing Plus Technologies solutions streamline and improve productivity in logistics – distribution print environments. To maximize efficiency in these environments organizations must be able to reliably print pick tickets, invoices, labels, bills of lading and other documents. In many cases documents have to be combined or re-ordered for inclusion in a shipment. Documents should not be printed twice or missed. The ability to restart print jobs at a specific page is very important as well. In addition to maximize throughput load balancing jobs across multiple devices is an important capability. Automated failover upon print failure also helps…
January 16, 2020
New Versions of OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) and My-Print-Delivery (MPD) New versions of OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM) and My-Print-Delivery (MPD) print software are in development and are coming soon. Plus Technologies' software engineers are nearly finished significant enhancements to Delivery Manager (DM) and My-Print-Delivery (MPD). Delivery Manager is a market leading output management software solution that routes print jobs from the source system all the way to the printer tray and adds numerous value add features along the way. Features such as load balancing, automated failover, intelligent/context based routing, print confirmation, error notification, statistics and more. My-Print-Delivery is…
January 10, 2020
Pull-Print - Server vs Workstation Based Architecture There are many pull-print solutions (also called print release) in the marketplace. The vendors of these solutions claim very similar capabilities but upon closer inspection there are critical differences. As a prospective buyer of pull-print one significant difference to explore is the architecture of the solution. Does the solution require a software install on every end user workstation - or is the solution server based. Significant Advantages to MPD We think there are significant advantages to having a server based pull-print solution like OM Plus My-Print-Delivery (MPD). Server based solutions like MPD typically…
January 8, 2020
Pull-Print with OM Plus My-Print-Delivery (MPD) OM Plus My-Print-Delivery (MPD) pull-print software is Plus Technologies solution for pull printing. This pull-print solution is also known 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…
December 31, 2019
Happy New Year 2020! Here at Plus Technologies we want to wish all our customers, partners, employees, and family a very happy and prosperous New Year. 2020 is time for a new beginning, new days, a new year, and a new decade. Plus Technologies hopes this is going to be a very special year for all of us. A new year brings new ideas, new hopes and of course courage to overcome all the new challenges. As we wind up with the year 2019 and beginning a new year, as always, we would like to express our sincere thanks to…
December 30, 2019
OM Plus OMS Solutions for Banking Plus Technologies provides output management solutions into the banking market and has a significant installed base of customers (see below). Major Bank – In the “major bank” segment our customer list include the largest US bank, the largest residential mortgage provider, the largest German bank, as well as many others. In this segment, OM Plus is commonly used in the data center to provide routing, bundling, and timely delivery of documents created in the host to printers in branches and other locations. OM Plus also provides confirmation of delivery to the tray, notification of print failure…
December 23, 2019
Customers Choose Plus Technologies Plus Technologies is a global provider of Output Management Software (OMS) solutions. That means we ingest print jobs from 'backend systems like ERP's, EMR's, WMS, Accounting systems, etc and reliably route these jobs to their needed destinations. With bi-directional communications with print devices our solutions can confirm delivery right to the print tray. Should the print job not complete properly OM Plus will be aware of the problem, notify the help desk, automatically fail-over to a back up device, and provide an audit trail and tools necessary for a fast recovery and root cause analysis. In…
December 20, 2019
Happy Holidays from Plus Technologies Happy Holidays! The holidays are here, and Plus Technologies would like to wish everyone a happy holiday season. Regardless if you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, or neither we hope everyone enjoys the end of the year with family and friends. 2020 is right around the corner and as a company Plus Technologies looks back on what we are thankful for. First of all we are very thankful for all our hardworking employees. In addition, Plus Technologies is thankful for our customers and partners. A special thank you goes out to our service members who could not…
December 16, 2019
Plus Technologies and Lexmark Awarded Large Rx Printing Contract Plus Technologies' partner Lexmark has won a Managed Print Services (MPS) contract at a large South Carolina healthcare organization. A key requirement of the contract is the provisioning of tamper resistant print software for prescription (Rx) printing on 1,250 plain paper printers. By using plain paper instead of pre-printed forms the customer is able to save a significant amount of cost while retaining the security features required for Rx. Plus Technologies will be providing the tamper resistant software required for this project with its OM Plus TRP system. The Plus Technologies'…
December 9, 2019
OM Plus i-Sat May be a Real Benefit to You Do you need to print documents created on a hosted server? Do you have remote locations not on the network? Are you concerned about 'non-organic' employees having access to your org's corporate systems? Do you utilize expensive and hard to maintain VPN to get access to the host system? If you said yes to any of these questions, then OM Plus i-Sat may be a real benefit to you. (more…)
December 2, 2019
Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving Thanksgiving was this past week and as the Nation takes the day off we acknowledge what we are thankful for. As a company Plus Technologies is thankful for all our hard working employees. In addition, Plus Technologies is very thankful for our customers and partners. A special thank you goes out to our service members who could not make it home for the holiday. In 1789 George Washington proclaimed Thanksgiving a public holiday in the United States. For the next 74 years, Thanksgiving was celebrated by individual colonies and states. In 1863 Abraham Lincoln made Thanksgiving…
November 20, 2019
Print Servers vs. Output Management Servers There is a lot of discussion about getting rid of Print Servers in the market today. Print Servers are devices that connect multiple workstations to printers so that the printers can be shared among many users. This is a good thing but print servers are also a burden on IT. They can add considerably to their workload. As a result, there are products are designed to eliminate print servers in order to reduce IT workload. These products advertise by saying "get rid of print servers." Here at Plus Technologies, we want to point out…
November 8, 2019
Limited Time Price Discount on OM Plus Fleet Manager (FM) Plus Technologies is announcing a new pricing program for its OM Plus Fleet Manager (FM) product. When a Managed Services Provider signs up for a 2 year term or longer for the hosted version of OM Plus Fleet Manager (FM), 12 months of usage fees will be waived. OM Plus FM collects page counts, toner levels and alerts for SNMP network connected printers and managed function devices. Device alerts let the MPS Provider dispatch service in a timely and accurate manner. Scheduled reports show page counts (color and mono) by device…
November 7, 2019
OM Plus Complements Printer Definition/Driver Management Systems There are software tools that help manage end user printer definitions and print drivers. However, these tools typically require software to be installed on end user workstations and print jobs from the workstation directly to the printer avoiding Windows print servers. The good news is that these solutions can eliminate the need for Windows print servers which add an administrative burden to organizations. The bad news is that these solutions rely on direct IP printing and are missing key features related to the delivery, routing, error recovery, and management of print jobs typically…
October 31, 2019
OM Plus for Finance and Banking Plus Technologies has been providing print solutions to financial institutions for many years and has a significant installed base of customers in this market. Our customer list include the largest US banking software provider, the largest residential mortgage provider, the largest mortgage lender in the US, the largest German bank, large insurance companies, as well as other institutions large and small. In addition, a large bank core processing software provider includes OM Plus as their standard print engine in their product. OM Plus delivers and adds security centrally created documents (like mortgages) to remote…
