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Mercury: Print & Document Management Solution

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Mercury is a modular print and document management system.Mercury connects various print data from the host, AS/400 and Windowsworld for an optimal output on standardized printing environments.Any desired communication to all host and AS/400 systems.(Support of all common host and network protocolsincl. 370 channel and SNA server)Conversion of print data to standard PCL, PS, PDF or GDI.Forms management for static and dynamic Forms.Barcode and document workflow.Job Interpreter for rule based printing.Device management and printer monitoringAccounting and monitoring of printing costs.‚Follow2Print‘ and Secure Printing

What is Mercury?

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Mercury is the bridge between host, AS/400 and office world.With conversion of print data in standardized formats, Mercury offersmanufacturer- and hardware independence to the user.The combined usage of all resources results in a high cost saving potentialfor the user.Overlay- and forms management replace cost intensive matrix printingsystems and makes the usage of pre-printed paper forms redundant.The implementation of a customer workflow with Mercury saves time andmoney with concurrent safeguarding of the print process.Page based interpretation of print data within the Mercury rules systemallows customer specific forms generation and forms control.Accounting and device management detect hidden costs and providecomprehensive transparency ‚all around printing‘.

Which benefits and advantages does Mercury offer?

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Available for Windows as well as for Unix/LinuxSimple usage and installation.Web based, hardware independent GUI.Remote and online administration.Administration of all modules with only one interface.Direct host, AS/400 attachment e.g. with direct AFP support.Bi-directional host / server printer communication and SNMP integration.Job-ticket, reprint, reroute and cluster functionality.PDF workflow und various interfaces to archive systems.Comprehensive documented API (XML/RPC-interface).„String Change“ filter allow the usage of unitary printer drivers.Integrated functions of SNA and print server, also PSF and Infoprint.

Important facts: Mercury Print & Document Management system

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Overview of the modular functional structure

HOSTdata

Raw data

PCLPrint data

CSVImport data

Data-conversion

InputFilter

FieldScanner

DocumentSeparator

Rules &Routing

Printcontrol

Barcodemodule

E-Mailmodule

StringChange

Archivecontrol

INPUT

OUTPUT

ODBC

Application

OverlayManager

FormsProcessor

XMLForms &Resource

EditorResource Processing

OutputFilter

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Web based GUI.Device management, printing costs, system availability,toner & service reports.Accounting, user budgets, billing clients, „pop up“.‚Follow2Print‘, Secure printing.„Smart Card“ reader for MFP copy control.Open - hardware independent SQL data base.Comprehensive reports with CSV-export.Comprehensive documented API (XML/RPC-interface).SNMP walker for „private MIB“ recognition and analysis.Print data scanner for additional analysis and e.g. IPDS integration.

Important facts about Mercury Accounting & Device Management

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Overview of print monitoring & accounting

Follow “2“ Print & Rerouting

User, Pages, simplex/duplex, Color/BW

Printer, History, Toner low, Service, etc.Successful print feedback

MercuryAccountingData base

MercuryFleet & ServiceManagement

Data baseWindowsPrint data

HOSTAS/400

Print data

Job Ticket

Budgets

DataParser

DataParser

SNMPFeedback

SNMPFeedback

Card Reader

SNMP Walker Private MIB

Accounting

ConditionalProcessing

Fleet & ServiceManagement

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Platform independent Web client for all hardware independent systemenvironmentsAdministration of users and user-groups.Import possibility via LDAP and „Active Directory“.User defined printer pool and printer rights.Comfortable redirecting and distributing of print jobs.SNMP Window for printer status and information about possibleredirection of prints, also information about printer statistics andtoner / paper level.Web client works interactive with the Mercury server and therefore hasan automatic „refresh function“.All „event logs“ can be automatically delivered to the Windows systemprotocol.

Functional overview of the Mercury Web client

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Overview Web Client

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Job selection within the Web client acc. to filter, user & printer

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Interactive redirection of print jobs by the user

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SNMP and PCL monitoring within the Web client

Bi-directional communication between Mercury and printer with directMercury output ports or Mercury spooler.Page based monitoring of all print jobs and printer.Printer specific SNMP messages are displayed unitary within the Webclient.Page based clustering and reprint possible.Direct printer specific statistics including all relevant print jobs and printpages.Feedback of PCL-information back to the server/host by using the originalnetwork- or data protocol.Complete „streaming-capability“ from the host to the printer.Redirection of print jobs, pages or page areas to other printer.

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Up to date SNMP printer overview with status „green-yellow-red“

Statistical printer overview:

- jobs waiting for being released- spooled jobs for online-printing- printed jobs- printed pages- last printout

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Individual SNMP printer information within the Web client

SNMP printer overview Paper trays overview incl. availability

Toner information per printer

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Easy configuration of Mercury processes with rules.Combination of multiple rules is possible, e.g. data conversion – formsmerging - cluster & reprint.Input / output filter compensate printer specific control codes,that means with Mercury a „generic“ printer driver can be used.Administration of host, AS/400 and Windows print data with Mercury as anindividual output management tool.Complex customer workflow processes can be automated with the fieldscanner in combination with systems of rules.PDF generation and email distributing structures allow paperless dispatching.With overlay and dynamic forms processor, new applications can begenerated from raw data formats (incl. barcode and OMR module).

Functional design of the Mercury system

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Schematic Overview

PDF

Static FormsApplication (optional)

Standard PrintserverApplication

Dynamic Forms Application - online

Dynamic FormsApplication - offline

ASCII

Overlay Manager

CSV

...

Postscript

PCL5

PDF

FormsProcessor

Accounting

Reprint &

Cluster M

odule GDI

Job Collector

Archive

@ E-Mail

PCL

VIPP®

...

ODBC

Overlays

JobSeparator

XMLForms &Resource

Editor

DataScanner

DataScanner

PDFIndexPage def. and Form def. Processing

Resource Processing

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The modular concept of Mercury

Integrated all-in-one-solution: Connectivity, emulation, overlays, forms, barcodesand comprehensive print and job management functionality.Depending on emulation or task, various virtual printer can be created, whichcan print on one physical printer.Intelligent job & queue management results in an optimum load of the Mercurysystems and the attached printing systems.AFP, Metacode/DJDE, XES, VIPP, IPDS and other data stream conversions,also possible within multiple simultaneously working emulations.String- and record-change-filter for individual adjustments;code-page-filter with international character sets for worldwide active customers.Document flow control for each network printer with PJL, based on the realprinted pages („page-event-feedback“).Support for all network protocols for attachment of LAN and host, AS/400systems incl. SNA IBM S/370 channel attachment(Prerequisite: Mercury DCI channel interface card).

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Modular concept – configuration components

Configuration of the necessary components Input Interface, DataConversion and Output Interface.

Combining of components for a Logical Printer.Host

LAN Input

DATAConversion

Output Printer FORMManagement

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Modular concept – multi dimensionalUsage of the „string-change“ filter for unification of printer hardware and driver

1 1 1 Printer

1

Printer

2

2 22

3 3

Host

LAN

Example: Printer 1 tray selection command „A“ logical printer: host - 1 - 1 - 1 - printer 1 host - 2 - 2 - 2 - printer 2

Example: Printer 2 tray selection command „B“ logical printer: LAN - 3 - 1 - 1 - printer 1LAN - 3 - 2 - 2 - printer 2

Replace„D“with„B“

Command„C“

Replace„B“with„A“

Replace„A“with„B“

Command„A“

Command„B“

Replace„C“with„A“

Replace„D“with„B“

Command„D“

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The scanner parses the data stream for pre-defined, constant strings andassigns the following characters to data fields.Currently any desired binary data streams and PCL are supported.The recognition and selection of pre-defined data fields works with ‚TriggerStrings‘ or interactive on the screen.The selected data fields and their contents can be used for controlling thefollowing Mercury modules:

Job InterpreterBarcode moduleOverlay & Forms Manager‚Field Positioner‘Job Separator‚Rerouting‘ of print jobsCreation of index files for PDF workflowExtraction of email addresses for document dispatching

Main functionality of the Data Scanner

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Extraction of text from PCL print jobs

A scanner for PCL print jobs recognizes data fields via defined areas of apage. Each marked area complied with a data field.The user defines the relevant areas interactively at the screen.

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Job Interpreter for paper tray control

With the help of the Job Interpreter, any desired ready for print PCL &Postscript print data streams can be parsed for various paper traycommands.

Depending on the requirements and possibilities of the printing systems,those paper tray commands can be modified and adjusted to the printers‘sneeds.

The handling of the Job Interpreter is interactive via the GUI.

The printer specific mapping possibilities are automatically displayed tothe user.

The print jobs itself can be redirected to any desired printing system.

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Scan for data data on each single page within a print data stream.Insertion of data as a barcode-graphic on the particular page.Any desired number of barcodes per page with free positions.

No need for creation of barcodes for the host application.No need for the printer for printing barcodes.

Barcodes from dynamically gathered data

Outputwith barcode

BarcodeFilterInput Data

Scanner

EnvelopeStopPage counting 3Sort out 2Sort out 3Page counting 2Page counting 1Parity

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Overlays as static forms for ASCII, PCL and host print data

Insertion of any desired static forms into the print job.Creation of page based copies with different forms.Support of foreground Overlays for masking of print data.Forms are created with standard applications and printed with a PCL printerdriver into a file.

No need for complex editors.

Background Overlay Foreground Overlay(white rectangles)

Job Data

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Static forms with ASCII job data

Additional options:

Creation of PCL print jobs from ASCII formatted job data.Font control with inserted trigger-sequences.Simplex ASCII print jobs can be converted to duplex print jobs.

ASCII formatted job dataPrinted as PCL into a file

Multiple copieswith different

forms

‚Field Scanner‘ for overlay control

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Static forms with PCL job data

Additional options:

For PCL based jobs, for any desired page, a back page - without job data -can be inserted.

E.g. Printing of business conditions on the back page from the first sheet.

Simplex - sheet 3

Duplex -sheet 1

Simplex - sheet 2

Inserted back page sheet 1

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Dynamic ‚Field Positioner‘

Recognition and selection of any desired content from PCL and ASCII datastreams via ‚Field Positioner‘ interactively at the screen.

Assignment of content to defined, variable fields and field names.

Automatic transfer of fields and their variable content to the OverlayManager.

Re-positioning of fields and corresponding re-formatting

‚Field 1 = Name 1‘, ‚Field 2 = Invoice number‘

Selection of font and style for the text that has to be moved.

Masking of the original field area with a ‚white‘ overlay.

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‚Field Positioner‘: Interaktiv selection of data fields and Re-sorting with font selection

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‚Job Separator‘: Separation on constant strings and ‚Rerouting‘

Scan of the PCL-Jobs for multiple constant strings.Separation of the PCL-Job in single print jobs per recognized string.Optional addition of banner- and/or trailer-page.Optional removal of recognized strings. (requires ASCII readable PCL print data)

Assignment of various overlays.

Job 0815

Job I.0815

Job IC.0815

Job DN.0815

Department III

Department I

Department IIInput Department I

<I>

Input Department II<IC>

Input Job Separator

Input Department III<DN>

<I>,<IC>,<DN>

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‚Job Separator‘: Separation on variable data and re-assembling

Scan of the PCL-job for a constant string with a defined number of subsequentvariable characters.Separation of the PCL-job in single print jobs per recognized string.Optional addition of banner- and/or trailer-page.Optional removal of recognized strings. (requires ASCII readable PCL print data)

Assembling of single pages for ‚new‘ print jobs.

Job 0815

Invoices.0815.Customer_1234

Invoices.0815.Customer_212

Invoices.0815.Customer_18234

PCL > PDFInput Job Separator

Archive

Customer: ?????

PCL

PCL

PCL

Job Collector PCL > PDF

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Gathering of index data from the print data stream.Generation of import files with reference to the print job file.Normalization of date values, for unique notation.Archiving as PCL file or optional as PDF file.

Printed PCL jobs can be converted to PDF in parallel and can betransferred indexed to the archiving system.

Creation of index files for PDF workflow und data archiving

Import Files

Input Data Scanner Archive

Job FilesFile

Output

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Variable email addresses are extracted from the data stream with the help offield definitions an transferred to the ‚dynamic‘ email dispatching.

Extraction of email addresses from the data stream and electronicdispatching

Input

Mercury: Static Email Dispatching

Job SeparatorData Scanner

Port 1: Email Address A

Port 2: Email Address BRules & Routing

Mercury: Dynamic Email DispatchingPort 3: variable Email Address

„Field XY: variable Email Address

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Mercury & Forms

Mercury Forms Builder is an application for graphical creation of print jobs.

The job sequence is displayed as Job Definition within a tree structure.

Within a Job Outline window the print preview of any page can be seen.

The layout of the page with the placeholders for data fields is created withina graphical editor.

With attaching to an ODBC data base,the job layout can be filled with data.

ODBC supports:

• Server based data basesSQL-server, MySQL, etc.

• File based data basesMS-Access, DBase, etc.

• othersMS-Excel files, ASCII, etc.

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Possibility for integration of raw data with variable content into dynamic formsvia field definitions.Additionally with the ‚Data Scanner‘ variable field data can be extracted,without the need to make any changes within the host application.

Mercury: ‚Dynamic Forms Management‘

Data Scanner ODBC

FormsBuilder Forms

Forms ProcessorInput

Or raw data from Data bases

Re-formatting of data and

Forms generation

Extraction of data from the

formatted print job

Printer

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Forms design and integration of data fields intodynamic forms

Window with raw data fieldsGraphical forms editor

(WYSIWYG layout editor)

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In addition: text, graphic and graphic primitives

Text with TrueType fonts.

Import of graphic.BMP, JPEG, TIFF etc.

Graphic primitives.Lines, line stringsFree hand linesRectanglesCircles, arcsPolygonsSupport of continuous text withautomatic reformatting.

Page break from front- to back page.Page break over multiple pages.

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Summary

Mercury is an open and modular concept.Depending on the used components, it is

a transaction compliant print management server with data conversion, multi-connectivity and selective re-printing;

a document management system for automated distribution, duplication andre-organization of print jobs (‘DMS‘);

a forms management system for static forms and overlays;

a forms management server for dynamic re-formatting of almost arbitrary printjobs;

a forms application for personalized mass printing.

an ‚Accounting & Device Management‘ system incl. ‚Follow2Print‘ andMFP control.

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Overview of unlimited possibilities

Host / Server / AS/400 / LAN

Input Data StreamParallelEthernet Channel ESCON Twinax* FileSerial

Input Filter

Code Page: EBCDIC > ASCII | StringChange | Record Change | Regular Expressions | Field Scanner

Xerox

ConversionResourcesSettings

PCL

Printer File

Interfaces to AccountingArchivingSQL DatabaseSAP ApplicationXML-Interface

Various Applications

TCP/IP Direct Novell QueuesSNA LU1/LU3SNA LU6.2LPD PPD POP3 TWAIN

IPDS

ConversionResourcesSettings

PCL

IGP

ConversionResourcesSettings

PCL

Prescribe

ConversionResourcesSettings

PCL

FOL

ConversionResourcesSettings

PCL

PCL

ConversionResourcesSettings

PDF

PCL

ConversionResourcesSettings

Postscript

ConversionResourcesSettings

GDI

PCL

PCLPDFPrescribePostscriptASCII

Transparent

Transparent

Output Data

Input Data

ExternalProgram

Output Filter

Code Page | StringChange | Field Scanner | PCL Parser | Barcode

Document Management Job SeparatorPostal SortDocument ClusterSelective OMR CodingJob Collector

PCL

Forms Management Static Forms / OverlaysDynamic Forms

PCL

Job Management SpoolingDelayed PrintingRe-PrintingRecoveryViewing

Output Data Stream

TCP/IP Direct LPR PPR SMTP

ParallelEthernet Channel FileSerial

Page ConfirmationSNMP Monitoring

ConversionResourcesSettings

Postscript

VIPP®

PCL TIFFPDF PS

ConversionResourcesSettings

PCL

AFP

GDI

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Extract of our end customer portfolio:

Austrian Airlines

Bausparkasse Mainz

Bausparkasse Schwäbisch-Hall

Bertelsmann - Mohn Media

BG RCI

BP Refinery Rotterdam B.V.

Daimler AG

Doc Morris Versandapotheke

Häfele GmbH & Co. KG

Karstadt / Quelle

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Extract of our end customer portfolio:

KLM Airlines

Nadler Feinkost GmbH

National Bank of Greece

Niederösterreichische Landesregierung

Postbank

Rhenus Logistik

Shell

Volkswagen

WMF AG

und viele andere...

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‘Who is who’ in docuFORM:

docuFORM GmbH Karlsruhe

Headquarter

Händelstr. 11D-76185 KarlsruhePhone: +49.721.16198.0Fax: +49.721.16198.16E-Mail: info@docuform.de

Management, CEO

Martin DenkE-Mail: mdenk@docuform.debased in Karlsruhe, Germany

Reinhard SuhlE-Mail: rsuhl@docuform.debased in Mannheim, Germany

Projekt Management, Support Coordination

Jochen FrankE-Mail: jfrank@docuform.debased in Mannheim, Germany

docuFORM GmbH Mannheim

R&D, Orders, Sales, Logistics, Support

Lembacher Str. 16-18D-68229 MannheimPhone: +49.621.328858.0Fax: +49.621.328858.23E-Mail: support@docuform.de

Order, Sales Logistics

Beate DietzE-Mail: bdietz@docuform.debased in Mannheim, Germany

Support

Ingo AlexPhone : +49.6103.4873879Mobile : +49.172.9571025E-Mail : ialex@docuform.de

Thomas OpplPhone : +49.69.47866678Mobile : +49.172.9571048E-Mail : toppl@docuform.de

CONTACT

info@docuform.de

www.docuform.de