In today's environment, production print shops are facing increased pressure to reduce costs and streamline operations. This can be a difficult proposition considering that the demand for information is ever increasing. As companies consolidate operations to save money the issue of hardware compatibility becomes another major hurdle.. Here are just a few of the issues facing print shops today:
Shrinking revenues and tightening budgets
Supporting high-priced assets and large staffs
Trying to balance peak loads with fewer resources
Integrating applications and job streams from incompatible systems
With these, and many other, issues to deal with, it is even more important than ever for every print shop to maximize all of their resources. From equipment to personnel to workflow there are savings to be found in most organizations.
The Solution
At the core of a successful production print management software package lies a powerful central server, where the print jobs can be aggregated, converted, managed, and routed securely to a disparate group of printers. For us, this is Barr EOM. Barr EOM allows a production print manager a single Windows® based platform from which to control all aspects of the print workflow. Barr EOM is a single platform product that can not only help achieve those savings but to bring to light cost savings that hadn't previously been identified.
Barr EOM allows you to do more with less - less printers, less staff, less errors, and even less paper and other consumables. That all translates to less cost.
Less Printers
- Barr EOM allows you to reduce the number of printers by maximizing your peak time performance through prioritizing, scheduling, load balancing, job splitting, document bundling and bursting, and data transformations to move jobs from expensive printers to less expensive printers. All of these feature ensure that you achieve the highest possible ROI on your high cost printers while eliminating those that are not adding value to your environment.
Less Staff - Barr EOM allows you to maintain a smaller staff by increasing efficiency. Operators can oversee multiple printers from a variety of customized interfaces. From a familiar looking user interface you can easily design views of your environment to best assist operators and administrators in observing, managing, and reacting to workflow requirements.
Less Errors -
Barr EOM decreases the likelihood of errors because our interface allows customize views that allow operators to group and display jobs in the most efficient manner for their task. And when there is a problem, our automated alerts will immediately notify the operator and the manager of any issues. The action taken as a result of those errors, such as printer jams can be handled automatically by Barr EOM notifying the operator that the job has been rerouted or otherwise managed. This takes the guesswork out of the workflow. If an unexpected event happens Barr EOM proactively adjusts and continues without causing workflow backups that can cost you money.
Less Paper -
Barr EOM allows a reduction in paper consumption by allowing print jobs to be reprinted from a range rather than the entire job. And our bundling/bursting features let you reconfigure jobs so that duplicate reports need not be generated. You can also reorder pages to streamline print jobs to reduce unnecessary extra page prints and thereby reduce labor in the back-end sorting and mailing processes.
By creating business rules, operators can quickly and easily maximize utilization and efficiencies within the print shop.
Create job scheduling and priority based on size, source, job ticket, header, etc.
Create failover rules to move jobs from down printers to active printers
Maximize utilization of assets by automatically routing jobs to the most cost efficient devices for the job.
Maximize efficiencies within print jobs by busting/bundling jobs before they print
Track all processes for reporting, billing, and auditing purposes
You've been looking for the solution to all your business challenges. We are that solution. Click here to see how BARR EOM can help.
We are easy to reach! Even if your specific document distribution and delivery need was not covered on this page, there is a very good chance we can still help. Please, give us a call at 1-800-227-7797 or +1-352-491-3100, or drop us a note at sales@barrsystems.com.
You've been looking for the solution to all your business challenges. We are that solution. Click here to see how BARR EOM can help.
Here are some of the specific applications that many of our customers have used:
Production Print Management
