Smart Document-Related Software Solutions

Make Your Employees More Productive

Maximize device uptime and cost efficiency with intelligent job routing. Automatically reroute high-volume or color print jobs from desktop printers to multifunction imageRUNNER devices with lower costs per page, or divert print jobs to available devices if a user's first choice is busy.

Manage and Reduce Costs

With sophisticated tracking and reporting functionality, learn who is using your devices and how they are being used. Gain insight into usage levels and related costs, even if your devices are spread across multiple buildings or locations. uniFLOW can also allocate output costs to specific users, clients, projects, and departments.

Improve Document Security

uniFLOW Output Manager enables you to increase security measures for device activity across your organization. Jobs can be held at the uniFLOW server until a user provides identification at the device, preventing unauthorized persons from retrieving a confidential document. uniFLOW integrates easily with many identification systems including magnetic card readers, contactless card readers, and keyboard entry. For example, the easy-to-use MiCard enables users to identify themselves by waving their cards near a reader, while uniFLOW MEAP also allows users to access and print documents securely from Canon imageRUNNER devices.

Desktop Accounting/Statistics

The Desktop Accounting module provides office users with key information concerning their network and locally connected printers, allowing administrators to better understand the usage levels and costs associated with printed and copied output. When integrated with identification systems and the MEAP platform, the Desktop Accounting module also enables allocation of print and copy jobs to cost centers, student accounts, and project codes for charging and billing.

Remote Printer Server

The Remote Print Server module allows administrators to account for printing in remote locations, providing comÂplete control across all output devices wherever they are. This allows organizations to send print-related files only over local networks while sending accounting information back to a central database to enable a company-wide understanding of output activity.

Rule Based Routing

The Load Balancing module automatically routes print jobs to the most cost-efficient devices in an office. For example, it may send a small job to a desktop laser printer, but a larger one to a Canon multi-functional device. The module can also divert jobs to alternative devices in the event of a problem so that staff productivity remains unaffected.

Server Clustering

Server Clustering allows uniFLOW to run on a clustered Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server environment, providing the highest degree of failover protection and load balancing.

Secure Printing

The Secure Printing Module provides users with mechanisms to control the output of sensitive documents. It holds print jobs at the server and only permits them to be retrieved by someone using an appropriate identification method. Universal Secure Printing also allows documents to be sent and then printed at the most appropriate device. Organizations can integrate many different identification systems with uniFLOW Output Manager including fingerprint readers, magnetic card readers, contactless card readers, and keyboard entry.

MEAP Functionality

The Secure Printing Module can be extended though MEAP technology. Normally the secure print function prints all the jobs waiting for a user at a device. The MEAP interface displays a list of jobs on the device control panel enabling users to select the ones they want to print.

Professional Printing Modules

Web Queue Management

Print operators can use the Web Queue Management module to access a central queue for incoming print jobs, and then direct jobs to the most appropriate print device. uniFLOW assesses the print job and adapts it according to the output device specified, saving valuable time for the operator.

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Internet Gateway

The Internet Gateway Module provides a direct interface with customers, giving 24/7 access to facilites and enabling them to simply and accuratley specify job details

Document Archiving

The Document Archiving module allows print jobs to be stored with all associated print settings for efficient future retrieval. And because archive information always incorporates the job ticket, users can check customers' original specifications, eliminating any confusion.

Job Conversion Instance

With the PDF Workflow module, PDF previews of jobs can be generated and viewed, saving time and money by providing accurate proofs prior to printing.

Load Balancing

In a production environment, minimizing output costs to maximize profitability is critical. With Load Balancing, you can ensure that jobs are allocated to printers that incur the lowest copy costs, and also split jobs to the relevant output device when they contain mixed-color and black-and-white pages.

IT Managers

If you're an IT manager today, you're continually looking for ways to cut costs and streamline existing operations. uniFLOW Output Manager gives you deep understanding and control over output-related expenses across your organization. Control device usage and infrastructure from a central location. Use analytical tools to right-size your fleet, adding only the devices you need. You can also reduce support calls thanks to a deeper insight into potential and existing problems and error messages. In the end, you'll have a better, more efficient infrastructure while reducing the time and costs needed to maintain it.

Management

Today's business managers face strong pressure to rein in costs while increasing efficiency. By optimizing your print infrastructure uniFLOW Output Manager, you can significantly reduce costs while streamlining operations and enabling greater productivity for your workers. You can gain a greater understanding of how many devices your organizations needs and how they can be configured. You can set access controls to decrease wasteful output and positively influence behavior. And you can enable power users to get the very most out of your Canon MFPs and other devices.

General Office Users

Output devices should enable you to work more effectively, not pose a time-consuming distraction. uniFLOW Output Manager maximizes print availability for all users on a network, saving you time and increasing your productivity. In addition, it supports special needs like the ability to protect confidential documents from wrongdoers, while allowing authorized users full access to everything they need to get their jobs done.