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PRISMAdirect

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Web-based, end-to-end workﬂow management

A single, highly scalable and integrated workﬂow management solution, PRISMAdirect streamlines the entire print production process, simplifying job acquisition, reducing overheads and increasing productivity.

Streamline your production workﬂow

• Highly scalable management solution that streamlines

your entire production workﬂow with one single application.

• Easily acquire, process, manage and fulﬁl smaller, more

numerous and diverse print jobs from a variety of channels

• Maximise productivity by automating the preparation

and production of predictable and repetitive jobs

• Job splitting and load balancing allows the most

ecient and cost eective distribution of jobs among available printers

• Assign jobs to speciﬁc operators and to dierent

locations for maximum productivity

Grow and control your business

• One central solution with a single overview increases

operational eciency and drives business growth

• Flexible and scalable solution can be conﬁgured to

meet the evolving needs of any size or type of printing facility

• Reduce overheads and achieve faster turnaround times

with quick and easy management of orders and jobs from start to ﬁnish

• Customisable and intuitive web-based interface

accessible at all times and from anywhere.

• Optional Webshop Module oers fully customisable

and unlimited storefronts to retain existing customers and attract new business

• Automate and personalise customer communication

emails via the interface to strengthen customer relationships

• Greater control over costs with accounting and

reporting capabilities that provide accurate ﬁnancial insights into business performance and generate customised analysis

Optimise existing resources

• Achieve maximum interoperability with third-party

solutions through use of open market standard Adobe PDF and JDF/JMF interfaces

• Get the most out of your existing print ﬂeet with broad

support for controllers, such as PRISMAsync, EFI Fiery and CREO as well as other third party devices

• Easily integrate wide format printers into existing

workﬂows

• Advanced print management via integration with the

PRISMAsync Remote Manager.

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Technical Speciﬁcations

PRISMAdirect

GENERAL

PDF documents PDF 1.1 -1.7

PDF document restrictions Not supp orted: files th at are pas sword prote cted; f iles with

Languages Englis h (UK), En glish (US), Dutch , German, Fren ch, Jap anese ,

SERVER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Operating system 64 bits Windows S erver 2008 ® R2 SP 1 (Standa rd, Enter prise)

Microsoft SQL Server local installation 64 bits

Microsoft SQL Server remote installation 32/64 bits

Network TCP/IP (IP v4), 100 / 1 000 Mb ps

Windows® components in package

Microsoft Office Excel® Functio n: Cost calcula tion, Fo rmula ed itor

File Syst em NTFS (nee ds 40 GB or m ore free s pace)

Native document conversion Neevia ® Docum ent Conver ter 6.7

Note Latest critical updates from windows update

SERVER HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Processor Intel® 3 .2 GHz or highe r

Memory 8 GB or mor e

Hard di sk 200 GB or m ore (SATA3)

Video 1280 × 1 024 pixels o r more true c olors (24/ 32 bit) for desktop

Screen 19 inch o r higher

VMWARE SERVER VIRTUAL HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS

Performance Pass Ma rk rating 8 00 or more

Hard disk performance Disk Mark 100 0 or more

Hard di sk late ncy DPC Lat ency Che cker: 1000 μs o r less

Notes V Mware ESX s erver or M S Hyper-V is support ed

“Prop erties > D ocument Restr iction s Printin g: Allowe d” that ar e page programmed.

Suppo rted: f iles with “ Proper ties > Documen t Restric tions Printin g: Allowe d” can b e upload ed via web s ubmiss ion and printed

Danish, Italian, Norwegian, Portugu ese, Spanish, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Russian

Windows Server 2012® (Datacenter, Standard, Essential, Foundation)

Windows S erver 2012® R 2 (Datacenter, Sta ndard, E ssential, Foundation)

Microso ft SQL S erver 2 008 , SP2 or S P3, Exp ress Editi on with Advanced Services

Microso ft SQL S erver 2 012, Ex press Edi tion with Adv anced Services

Microso ft SQL S erver 2 014 Expr ess Editi on with Adva nced Services

Microso ft SQL S erver 2 008 Ex press al l edition s

Microso ft SQL S erver 2 012 Expr ess all ed itions

Microso ft SQL S erver 2 014 Expr ess all ed itions

For a remot e SQL ser ver, remote connec tions, r eporti ng ser vices and SQL s erver b rowser mu st be ena bled

Microso ft .N ET Framew ork v4.0 a nd 3.5 S P1.

Microsoft ASP.NET

Microso ft IIS 7.0 or h igher

Microso ft Off ice® 2007 PIA

Microso ft Off ice Excel® 2007

Microso ft Off ice Excel® 2010

Microso ft Off ice Excel® 2013

The requ ired nu mber of co res depe nds on th e configu ration of PRISMAdirect

The requ ired nu mber me mory de pends on the conf igurati on of PRISMAdirect

RPM: m ore than 7.2 K , or SSD

RAID-0 (striping)

average se ek per disk: les s than 10 ms

average la tency pe r disk: less than 5 ms

Use the Pe rform ance Test 7.0 tool

WEB SERVER SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS

Operating system 64 bits Windows S erver 2008 ® R2 SP 1 (Standa rd, Enter prise)

Network TCP/IP (IP v4), 100 / 1 000 Mb ps

Windows® components in package

Microsoft Oce Excel® Function: Cost calculation

File Syst em NTFS (nee ds 40 GB or m ore free s pace)

Native document conversion Neevia ® Docum ent Conver ter 6.7

Note Latest critical updates from windows update

WEB SERVER- HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS & VMWARE

Web server hardware requirements

VMware Web Server hardware requirements

ORDER PROCESSING CONSOLE REQUIREMENTS

Operating system / Web browser

Notes Ch rome is the recomm ended browser

Video Recomm ended : 1920×1080 p ixels for b oth Web Sho p Editor and

Screen Recomm ended : 24 inch for both Web Sho p Editor an d Order

ORDER PROCESSING CONSOLE - HARDWARE REQUIREMENT

Processor Intel® C ore i5 or eq uivalent

Memory 4 GB or mor e

Video 1920 × 12 00 pixels o r more true colors 2 4/32 bit

Screen 24 inch screen

CLIENTS REQUIREMENTS – WEBSHOP

Description Clients can su bmit document s via web su bmissi on throug h

Operating System / Web browser

Notes Ch rome is the recomm ended browser

CERTIFIED WEB DRIVER – WEBSHOP

Opera ting sys tem 32 / 64 b its Windows 7 ®

Windows Server 2012® (Datacenter, Standard, Essential, Foundation)

Windows S erver 2012® R 2 (Datacenter, Sta ndard, E ssential, Foundation)

Microso ft .N ET Framew ork v4.0 a nd 3.5 S P1

Microsoft ASP.NET

Microso ft IIS 7.0 or h igher

Microsoft MSMQ

Microso ft Oc e® 2007 PI A

Microso ft Oc e Excel® 2 007

Microso ft Oc e Excel® 2 010

Microso ft Oc e Excel® 2 013

Same as t he serve r hardwa re requir ement s as menti oned bef ore

Same as the VMware Server hardware requirements as mentioned above

Windows 8 ® (32-/ 64- bit): Inte rnet Ex plorer 1 0 or high er, Chrome 40 or hig her

Windows 7 ® SP1 (32-/ 64- bit): Inter net Expl orer 10 o r highe r, Chrome 4 0 or higher

Mac® O S X 10.6 or h igher : Chrome 4 0 or higher, Safari 5 .1.x or higher

Linux ® 2.4, 2 .6 (32-bit): Chro me 40 or hi gher

Order Processing Console

processing console

PRISM Adirect Webshop o r existing websho p, via ema il, via hardco py, or via FTP s erver.

Windows 8 ® (32-/ 64- bit): Inte rnet Ex plorer 1 0 or high er, Chrome 4 0 or higher

Windows 7 ® SP1 (32-/ 64- bit): Inter net Expl orer 10 o r highe r, Chrome 4 0 or higher

Mac® O S X 10.6 or h igher : Chrome 4 0 or higher, Safari 5 .1.x or highe r

Linux ® 2.4, 2 .6 (32-bit): Chro me 40 or hi gher

Androi d 5.x: C hrome 4 4 or highe r

iOS 8.x: Safari

Windows 8 ®

Windows 2 008 ®

Windows 2012®

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