Canon PLANETPRESS BROCHURE

PLANETPRESS SUITE

PlanetPress Suite

Making Personalised Documents Work

Variable Data Printing Software

PlanetPress turns variable data printing from a nice idea into a workable,
affordable business process. From design and data processing to print and
distribution, this intelligent and flexible software provides everything you
need to make your documents more relevant, effective and professional. You
can now generate transactional documents at low cost and high speed with
PlanetPress software from Canon.

Transactional documents are critical to
businesses for generating payment, improving
cash flow, and enhancing customer loyalty.
However, organisations face 3 main challenges
associated with these documents – improving
operational productivity, enhancing document
value and system environment changes.

Canon, together with Objectif Lune, provide a range
of world-class variable data solutions that enhance
transactional and variable data production processes,
and enable professional documents to be delivered
to your internal or external customers quickly and
cost effectively.

Improving operational productivity

PlanetPress enables improved productivity and
reduced costs through automated operations for
capturing, formatting, processing and outputting
documents, even multiple document types from the
same input data. State of the art digital print devices
produce high speed, high quality, on-demand
output without the need for pre-printed stationary,
significantly reducing the cost of change, storage and
wastage.

Enhancing document value

PlanetPress provides document design tools that
enable the creation of professional documents
quickly and easily. Documents with improved clarity
and legibility, personalised to customer’s specific
needs, add value to the organisation. Pre-defined
business rules enable conditional processing of the
data stream to automatically define the content of
the document, and then composition rules specify
how the content is placed on the page. Charts,
graphics and barcodes can be automatically inserted
to further enhance the presentation of the content.

Benefits for Corporate Users

• Faster payment to improve cashflow

• Fewer queries, errors and reminders

• Enhanced customer loyalty

• Leverage existing applications

• Improved return on marketing
investment

Benefits for Print Service Providers

• Additional services to attract new
customers

• Higher value services to drive
incremental revenue

• Differentiation in competitive print
market

• Improved productivity through
automated operations

• Eliminate pre-printed forms to reduce
costs

Maximise the potential of variable data printing

Email documents

automatically

Production printing

TCP/IP LAN/WAN

Legacy & current data

Send data from

virtually any host

PlanetPress Watch

analyses and routes data

Cluster printing

Systems Environment Changes

PlanetPress will integrate with, and leverage,
existing business applications, without the need
for expensive re-programming. You can
automatically capture data streams from virtually
any source, and process many types of data.
Its modular approach enables you to access and
manipulate existing data and then print quickly
and efficiently, as well as utilise a range of
electronic delivery options.

Canon Workflow Program

PlanetPress is part of the Canon Workflow Program,
a comprehensive series of software solutions and
services that focus on supporting our customers in
overcoming business and production challenges.
We apply the experience and knowledge of our
Consultants to understanding your specific
business challenges and requirements, before
recommending a solution that will meet the
unique requirements of your business.

Output directly to fax

PlanetPress

Solution

Process

Integrated with electronic

document management

system

Archive as PDF

Distributed printing

Benefits for Print Service Providers

PlanetPress can deliver significant benefit to
Print Service Providers by enabling you to offer new,
value-added services to your corporate customers,
as well as attracting new customers. These
services enable you to differentiate yourselves in a
competitive market place, and the added value of
these services enables you to move to project-based
pricing with higher margins. PlanetPress enables
you to easily integrate with your customers’ existing
applications and systems, providing further
efficiency and value. You can also take advantage
of the automated operations to improve your
productivity and reduce costs.

PLANETPRESS SUITE

Key features:

• WYSIWYG design and formatting

• Conditional control of variable content

• Drag and drop graphics input

• Data driven pie, line and bar charts

• Adobe Distiller RIP engine

• Direct control of printer features

• Supports most data streams

• Password protected source files

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Canon Professional Services are available from Canon to support our products and software.

• Workflow analysis and optimisation • Installation, configuration and customisation

• Systems integration maintenance and support • Training and development • Flexible finance options

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