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Municipal Government Purchases OM Plus

A Municipal Government in Arizona has purchased OM Plus Delivery Manager (DM). This County Government utilizes high speed Ricoh Pro printers to batch print large print jobs. However, they needed a tool that could ‘hold’ the print jobs and allow an operator to manually release those jobs. In their current environment they did not have the ability to do that.

By using OM Plus DM this customer can seamlessly ingest the large print jobs from their application servers. Following, the OM Plus print software system will hold the print jobs. Moreover, the user friendly OM Plus UI is available to operators next to the high speed Ricoh printers. When the operator is ready to release the print job to the high speed device they can release it and direct it from the OM Plus UI.

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Print Software Company makes case for Print Servers

Recently, a software company focused in the print management space released a White Paper discussing the merits of utilizing ‘print servers.’ We felt this was a timely and relevant paper as there are some print software companies that promote getting rid of print servers entirely. We understand that there are some cases where eliminating “Windows print servers” may be desirable. However, in most cases we believe a ‘print server’ architecture makes the most sense for print spooling software. Especially for output created by back-end systems such as ERP, EMR, accounting systems, and other corporate back-end systems.

What is a print server’s main function and how can it be improved?

Giving Thanks on Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is this Thursday 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 hardworking 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 into a federal holiday. During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of “Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”
Since 1863 Thanksgiving has been celebrated on the last Thursday in November. In 1621, the “First Thanksgiving” took place when the Plymouth Colonists and the Wampanoag Indians shared an autumn harvest.

OM Plus Print Software for Warehouse Management System (WMS)

A 14 Billion dollar supply chain organization, based in Germany, has ordered another OM Plus print management software system. This customer will use the OM Plus print software for their Warehouse Management System. Duplicate and missing labels in distribution centers and warehouses can be a problem. However, OM Plus can prevent this. Moreover, in the case of label printer failure the OM Plus system will automatically fail-over a backup device and notify IT. This is done so that the production lines can keep running and shipments can continue to be made on time. In addition, OM Plus will load balance print jobs across multiple devices to increase throughput in peak times. Furthermore, shipping documents will be ‘bundled’ or ‘kitted’ in groups in order to ensure that proper sequencing is maintained. In order to increase productivity, documents (based on ‘triggers’) will be intelligently redirected to the optimal printer.

Honoring Veterans Day

Veterans Day is today, November 11th, and the Nation takes time to show support and gratitude to our service members. In addition, we thank our past, present, and future service members for their service.

Veterans Day was formally known as Armistice Day. Armistice Day became a U.S. holiday on November 11, 1919. Veterans Day was set to honor the end of World War I. World War I ended on November 11, 1918 and the first Armistice Day took place one year later.

Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans; and Plus Technologies takes time today to thank each and every service member and their families. Thank you for your service.

Recently the U.S. Military has been using OM Plus. The Military wants to protect documents from being copied/scanned/fax and protect the data in the document from being altered. You can read more on this blog here. Plus Technologies thanks the U.S. Military for using our software and we hope to continue working together in the future.

Plus Technologies Knowledge Base Page Up and Running on Our Website

Plus Technologies recently went live with a knowledge base page on our website. Our knowledge base page is located under the support tab on our website. This page will contain terms related to output management software and their definitions. This knowledge base page contains commonly used terms in our field. This page also contains terms that people may not know. The purpose of a knowledge base page is to have a cache of terms and phrases with their definition and description. We have also added a feature to suggest additions to the list. Moreover, terms will be listed in alphabetical order and will also include a search feature for easy accessibility. Suggesting a term is as easy as clicking the ‘Suggest a Term’ button and then filling out the two required fields. The two fields are the term and then a definition or description of said term.

Plus Technologies hopes a knowledge base page on our website will help improve communication and increase the amount of information our customers can access.

Knowledge Base is now available on our website. Click here to see. If you have any suggestions for terms and/or definitions please let us know.

Below are some screenshots of what the page looks like.

New My-Print-Delivery (MPD) release

OM Plus My-Print-Delivery (MPD) is Plus Technologies solution for pull printing. This type of solution is also called by other names such as print release, pull printing, 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.

Plus Technologies has released a new MPD version. The new version number is: 3.3.0021.

Included in this new release is all of the Android certified apps for both Lexmark and Dell. In addition, new IIS architecture for HP devices. Moreover, Plus Technologies has made changes that resolves the time delay issue. Furthermore, this time delay issue is related to retrieving the card data from embedded HP card readers.
In addition, new changes are based on IIS and are designed to optimize performance for HP devices. Lastly, the new version minimizes issues and delay around card reader data capture.